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Asda is to stop providing single-use plastic carrier bags with its online grocery orders, in a move that will remove around 85 million plastic bags from production each year. Following a successful trial period in south-west England and from its Dartford Home Shopping Centre in Kent, Asda will remove the …

Staff from housewares brand Smidge will be taking part in a beach clean on June 25 at Sand Bay in Weston-Super-Mare. Smidge has partnered with the Marine Conservation Society for the initiative and the Bristol-based business has decided to close for the day to enable more than 50 staff members to …

Sainsbury’s has committed to removing 489 tonnes’ worth of plastic bags which are currently used for loose fruit, vegetables and bakery items. By September, paper bags will be available to customers for loose bakery items. Customers buying loose fruit and vegetables will either be able to bring their own bags …

Morrisons claims to be the first British supermarket to roll-out plastic free fruit and vegetable areas in many of its stores. Customers will be able to choose from up to 127 varieties of fruit and veg – and buy them loose or put them in recyclable paper bags. The move …

Sainsbury’s has announced that it will end the use of dark coloured plastics (which are difficult to recycle) across fresh foods by the end of 2019 and entirely by March 2020 – and will remove all plastic packaging from Christmas crackers this year. The supermarket chain will also introduce a …

George, the fashion and homewares arm of the supermarket chain Asda, will for the first time sell products made from recycled plastic bottles and clothing, as part of a commitment to use only polyester that is sourced from recycled materials by 2025. The products launching in the retailer’s Spring/Summer 2019 …

Waitrose & Partners is funding a number of university fellowships to ‘boost new thinking’ on how to find, test and share solutions to tackle plastic pollution.   The Blue Charter Fellowships, run by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), will receive funding from the supermarket chain for 10 new fellowships …

Morrisons is to offer paper carrier bags to all customers, as part of a continuing drive to remove unnecessary plastic from its stores. The supermarket chain’s stores in Wales offered paper carrier bags last week and they will be rolled out to branches in England and Scotland in May. The …

Asda has announced that it has removed 6500 tonnes of plastic from its own-brand packaging since February 2018. The supermarket chain said the milestone marks ‘a significant step’ towards its ongoing commitment to reducing the amount of plastic used in product packaging. Asda has reduced plastic in almost 1,000 individual product …

Waitrose & Partners has launched ‘Plan Plastic – The Million Pound Challenge’. The initiative will support projects designed to reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic used, and plastic waste, with a £1 million grant fund. Funds will be awarded over one year to projects ‘that can demonstrate an impact on …