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Tangerine Confectionary, the Blackpool-based manufacturers of the Sherbert Fountain are abandoning the cardboard and paper tube and its iconic design for plastic. This they say will be more hygienic. Soggy paper and attempting to suck up fizzy sherbert through the liquorice straw will be a thing of the past.

These tactile memories will fade along with the joy of sticking your hand inside a KitKat paper wrapper and trying to burst it open, then running your finger down the tin foil wrapping and enjoying the slice and snap. Instead we'll have the benefits convenience, resealing and ease. How long will those memories last? "When I was a kid, the Sherbert Fountain was so hygienic and the resealing was so convenient" ............

Heinz baked beans are now available in plastic, one portion, snap pots, that you can throw into the microwave then simply dispose of the plastic container.  Tate and Lyle golden syrup is no longer in its iconic tin, but a plastic squeezy bottle. These plastic updates just make my heart sink, not only because we're being told by the emergence of these 'developments' that opening a tin and heating on a pan is outmoded and slow, but because it's just more disposable plastic containers of a proliferation of designs that were sound, iconic and didn't incur the same environmental impact that plastic does.

Tangerine explained they had decided to redesign the packaging because "consumers wanted a more hygienic pack that can also be resealed". Stephen Joseph, Tangerine's chairman, said he hoped customers would realise that the new design closely mirrored the old. "I know it sounds a bit anaemic to say that we changed the packaging for hygiene reasons but it did need to be done. The new design keeps the sherbet much fresher and means the liquorice stick no longer pokes out of the top. I hope people won't mind too much and we have tried to redesign the new package to looks as much like the old one as possible." They start shipping the sweet in its new packaging next month.

Convenience is a very short sighted term for a product that will last forever within the environment. Leaving its legacy for generations to come. At first glance this collection of bright plastic toothbrushes, disposable lighters and bottle tops looks like a colourful mosaic. But astonishingly all these pieces were found in the stomach of a dead fledgling Laysan albatross. The stark image is on the cover of today's special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which highlights the effect plastic has on the environment and human health.


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