It was a vast improvement on the previous meeting where Mayor Findley failed in her attempt to gag Councillors and even to remove a longstanding councillor from the Chamber.

Yet once again, this meeting was not plain sailing for the embattled Mayor.

Having launched a political attack on some councillors in the local media regarding her views on conduct, her patronising Mayoral Minute on meeting arrangements was rejected by the majority.

Once again the Mayor used her position to unsuccessfully curtail debate.

Then we saw Mayor Findley give licence to Greens councillors to pursue hostile debate with a community member who gave a presentation. Then we saw an interruption to a Councillor's argument because she found it disagreeable.

None of this is helped by the rostered presence of Greens members and supporters in the public gallery who constantly interject, scoff and even hiss at those whom they dislike - usually without interruption from the Mayor.

In calmly addressing all these issues, it was made very clear that the Mayor should model good leadership in meetings and that favourable application of the rules to some over others as well as the continued disregard for the Code of Meeting Practice is not acceptable to the majority of councillors.

Tone is set at the top.

I totally agree with the editorial in last Wednesday's Times.

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 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