I'm no longer ravenous. I'll no longer eat until I fall asleep. The Hunger Game,

a new five-part series exploring the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs. It's been an incredible

story with these drugs. The uptake, the amount of product that's been sold, the amounts of money

is cost. What the drugs do, how they work, and the knock-on effects of their widespread use.

We'll be sitting here in three years' time going, oh, it caused problems that we're now going to have to fix.

The Hunger Game with me, Professor Giles Yo. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

Let's have a look inside my kitchen bin.

The plastic wrapper from a chicken.

A bag that contained tortillas.

A crisp packet.

I don't think any of this will be recycled, and I feel bad about that.

I'm sure, though, this is a familiar scene and feeling in households around the world,

and companies are facing pressure from government legislation and consumers to make their packaging more sustainable.

So this week on the food chain from the BBC World Service with me, Ruth Alexander, we're speaking to a food manufacturer, a retailer and a packaging designer

about how they're trying to solve the problem.

As you'll hear, it's not easy, and the key to meaningful change may lie with us consumers.

First today, our reporter Jessica Cruz has been asking people in Brazil, one of the world's

biggest plastic producers, if it matters to them when they're out shopping, whether a

product's packaging is sustainable.

Because we see that the company took care to think about the environment,

so it does have an influence.

Currently, I would think about it.

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