UK supermarket pledges to go 'plastic-free'

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16 JANUARY 2018 • 12:22AM

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Iceland has become the first major retailer to commit to eliminate plastic packaging for all own brand products within five years to help end the "scourge" of plastic pollution.

The retailer said it would be replacing plastic with packaging including paper and pulp trays and paper bags which would be recyclable through domestic waste collections or in-store recycling facilities.

Iceland said it was the first major retailer globally to go "plastic-free" on its own label products and aimed to complete the move by the end of 2023.

It has already removed plastic disposable straws from its own label range and new food ranges set to hit the shelves in early 2018 will use paper-based rather than plastic food trays.

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1. Awesome! Don't buy single-use plastic packaging!

Take your own cup to the coffee shop, take Tupperware when you go out to eat, use your own heavy-duty shopping bags!

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2. Might I ask what you use for garbage?

Trying to find an alternative since they are now going to start charging for even paper bags here.

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3. Unfortunately, so many plastic bags come into

my life that I have a never-ending supply of trash bags. My household consists of me and my wife so we don't need Hefty-sized bags. We have a 2-gallon-sized trash bin in the kitchen and we use these surplus bags as liners. Yes, they are plastic, and yes they are going into the landfill to further degrade the environment, but that's the best we can do. I was just bird-watching near home and I picked up 3 plastic bags that were wrapped around bushes - they looked new and they weren't there last week.

We need to require biodegradable plastic bags to reduce this problem.