Here we are supposed to be trying to reduce our plastic use and it's getting crazier and crazier with the supermarkets selling vegetables all packaged up in plastic.

I could not believe my eyes when I saw sweet corn cobs, peeled, cut into lengths and put in a hard plastic box with a plastic cover.

What is going on when we can't leave corn in its original biodegradable 'packaging', totally protected from those nasty germs people seem to be worried about?

The world is going mad.

Supermarkets are going mad.

As consumers we should not be supporting this and should not be buying over-packaged produce. Better still, support your local greengrocers/fruit markets where possible.

They are also not immune to over-packaging their produce, but have not yet gone to these crazy lengths of the supermarkets.

I would like the government to regulate this sort of unnecessary plastic use, but that's never going to happen when they show a total lack of concern for single use plastics.

Take the recent two elections where each and every polling booth was wrapped with metres and metres of plastic, marketing their particular message.

\Both major parties were responsible for this.

Did they stop and consider how many booths there are around Australia and how many tonnes of plastic were going to end up directly going to landfill after election day?

No, they obviously didn't care less.

Here we have today in the Shoalhaven a whole day dedicated to reducing our waste, yet the big businesses and government don't seem to be getting on board.

We clearly need to shout louder and vote with our pockets. Don't buy over-packaged foods.

Get in touch with the big political parties to tell them what you think of their plastic wastage.

To those who think it can all be recycled - yeah, would be good, but we have too much plastic waste to be able to recycle it all. There is only a small market for end product of plastic waste.

We need to reduce at the source.

NSW has imposed water restrictions, stating that water inflows are the lowest since 1940. Now is the time to consider ways to save water.

It's undeniable that between irrigating the crops that farmed animals eat, providing millions of animals with drinking water each year, and washing away the filth of factory farms, transport trucks and slaughterhouses, animal agriculture places a tremendous strain on our precious water supply.

It takes on average 4,000 litres of water to produce a steak.

It takes over 500 litres of water to produce a litre of milk.

A combined study carried out by the University of Melbourne's School of Social and Environmental Enquiry and its Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering found that a vegetarian diet could save households up to 35 percent of their total water usage, 13 times the volume of water that would be saved by not watering the garden.

Going vegan saves over 4,000 litres every day, and not eating a kilo of meat saves more water than not showering for twelve months.

In addition to being terrible for the environment, today's factory farms cram intelligent animals by the thousands into dark, filthy cages or windowless sheds, where they are denied everything that makes life worth living.

You can save water, save money, and save hundreds of animals from a life of suffering and a terrifying death, just by going vegan.