Yahoo News Tesco Pledges To Remove Plastic From Its Multipacks
Tesco has announced that it will be removing the plastic from its multipacks as of 2 March.
The supermarket will be able to eradicate 350 tonnes of plastic a year from the environment.
Tesco chief executive, Dave Lewis, said: “We are removing all unnecessary and non-recyclable plastic from Tesco.
At the end of 2019, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Morrisons and Waitrose pledged to clear hard-to-recycle ‘black plastics’ from shelves. So this is another great step towards decreasing unnecessary waste in the UK.
Tesco is working with Heinz and Green Giant, among other brands, to find a way to replace plastic-wrapped multipacks of their products.
“While we know we have more to do, this initiative is good news for the environment,” said Georgiana de Noronha, president of Kraft Heinz in Northern Europe.
“It's great that Tesco are getting rid of multipack plastic packaging that's completely pointless and are also pressuring their branded suppliers like Heinz and Branston to do the same,” said Fiona Nicholls, ocean plastics campaigner for Greenpeace UK.
She added: “This is such an easy, common sense first step that all supermarkets should have done this long ago. We urge retailers to end the nonsense of double-plastic packaging on all products straight away, and be bolder by introducing reusable and refillable packaging.”
The World Wide Fund for Nature also supported Tesco's move. “We need to remove unnecessary single-use plastic wherever possible, to stop the contamination of the natural world,” said Paula Chin, from the WWF.
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