...pick up your trash...

[hounddoghowlie]

the only real way to take care of the problem is to go back to the old ways and use glass, cans, and paper bags, or better yet all fresh food. 
hell when i was young my grandparents and parents saved all their butter containers they ever bought for left overs.

I still do. Those plastic coffee "cans" make good planters, too.

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i save the new plastic coffee cans and use for painting, screws, nuts and bolts, all kinds of stuff. they work real well. almost as good as the metal ones did.