Ways of shopping for goods have changed a lot in the last 50 years. People used to go to several shops to buy their daily (1) ________.For example, they went to a (2) ________shop for meat, a fish market for fish and a farmer‘s market for vegetables,(3) ________were often grown locally. These days, (4) ________, people usually do all their shopping at a supermarket (5) ________they can buy everything they need (6) ________the same roof.

In the (7) ________of convenience nearly everything in a supermarket is prepackaged. But as the environmental (8) ________of this type of convenience have become clear, consumers have begun to (9) ________its true value. The packaging used by supermarkets causes many environmental (10) ________.The demand for paper for wrapping (11) ________the cutting down of forests around the world. Making plastic shopping bags (12) ________huge amounts of oil. The natural resources used to (13) ________packaging are generally wasted because (14) ________consumers only throw the packaging away. We are then (15) ________with the big problem to deal with all the packaging we throw away.

The problems of supermarket packaging (16) ________seem impossible to solve, but there are things consumers can do. First we can try to buy products (17) ________as little packaging as possible. Second, we can (18) ________the extra bags and packaging supermarkets offer consumers. Finally we can bring our own bags to the supermarket and reuse any plastic bags (19) ________containers we bring home. These measures may seem small, but (20) ________consumers join together in reducing waste and reusing packaging we can make real progress in the effort to have both convenient lifestyles and a clean environment.