Sainsbury's pledges to halve plastic packaging by 2025
reducing packaging should be the priority for retailers, rather than replacing plastic with compostable or recyclable alternatives.
Instead customers will be invited to bring their own bags, buy reusable bags made from recycled plastic bottles, or put a price sticker onto loose items.The supermarket considered introducing paper bags, but spokeswoman, Rebecca Reilly said the net impact would have been worse for the environment. But Helen Bird from packaging campaign group, Wrap, said plastic milk bottles were one of the items being widely recycled in the UK.
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