Morrisons to axe plastic bags from stores nationwide
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Morrisons will offer customers 30p paper bags instead | Credit: Morrisons
Supermarket announces it will gradually phase out bags for life from all its stores over the coming year
Morrisons has announced plans to become the first supermarket to completely remove plastic bags from its stores in a bid to curb the mountains of plastic waste dumped into landfill and strewn across natural habitats every day.
Dove’s Sleek New Refillable Deodorant Pack
The global health and beauty brand launches new deodorant packaging that is circular by design, with a reusable stainless-steel case that can be refilled with deodorant sticks.
Jan 28th, 2021 Reusable packaging has come a long way in strategy, sophistication, and sustainability. Launched in January by Unilever, the new Dove refillable deodorant system exemplifies this new approach, comprising a sleek, stainless-steel outer case guaranteed to last a lifetime, paired with refills in recycled-content, recyclable packaging. The innovation is just one of 100 projects Dove is working on across the globe to meet its goal to ensure all its packaging is plastic-free, is made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastics, or is reusable/refillable. It also represents Unilever’s first refill launch on a mass scale.
Plastic equivalent to the weight of almost 90 Eiffel Towers is being sold by British supermarkets.
This represents a plastic footprint which has grown significantly since 2017, according to a new report by two environmental charities.
In its third annual
Checking Out On Plastics report, Greenpeace UK and the Environmental Investigation Agency found that the 10 leading supermarkets collectively put almost 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging through the tills in 2019.
It also found that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.
While 2019 saw a dip of 1.6 per cent in plastic waste from the previous year, overall waste levels increased by 1.2 per cent from 2017’s figure.