One of the things that was really obvious about Myanmar was the lack of waste products visible on the ground. Never saw any plastic bag covered trees and not many corners full of plastic sandwich boxes, plastic drinks containers and plastic wrappers (like what blows into my front garden of a day).

Even in the best hotels, you never found little disposable bottles of shampoo, but rather refillable glass bottles or little wooden containers with shampoo and lotion. I loved that.

I like this recyclable plastic breakthrough which may mean that plastic recycling is far more viable. I alsways wondered why plastics weren't recycled more often and apparently re-heating it causes the material to degrade. This new plastic is created by squeezing, rather than heating and so may avoid the issue of polymer breakdown.

Using less packaging would be a quicker and easier solution, of course. Stupid marketing people.