Morrisons brings back paper bags in latest fight against plastic
Morrisons has started selling fresh produce in old-style paper bags, rather than plastic ones, as it tries to cut the use of plastics.
The supermarket chain, the UK’s fourth largest, says it will mean 150 million fewer plastic bags are used each year.
Prime Minister Theresa May has called plastic waste “one of the great environmental scourges of our time”.
The UK has a target to ban “avoidable” waste by 2042 and all supermarkets are taking firm steps to cut plastics use.
Interest in the issue was ignited by Sir David Attenborough’s TV series Blue Planet II, whose shots of an ocean of floating plastic debris horrified many viewers.
About 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste had been generated globally by 2015, with almost 80% of it going to landfills or the natural environment.
All major supermarkets have introduced programmes and targets to reduce, and in some cases eliminate, single-use plastics.
In January this year, Iceland said it would eliminate or drastically reduce plastic packaging of all its own-label products by the end of 2023.
Click here to read more (Source: BBC News)