Our planet is facing a plastic crisis.
What once seemed like a cheap and convenient way to protect food is now choking our oceans, causing harm to marine life who are essential to our ecosystem. It also ends up on your plate, via fish who have consumed microplastics, mistaking it for food. The oceans are expected to contain more plastic than fish by 2050.
Many of the major UK supermarkets, all of those below except Iceland, have signed up to WRAP’s (Waste and Resources Action Programme) UK Plastics Pact – an industry initiative which aims to transform the way businesses use plastic and prevent plastics polluting the environment.
Luckily Greenpeace is also breathing down the necks of each and every one of these retailers – it’s conducting a survey of the UK’s 11 biggest grocery stores, asking them what their current plastic use is, what their plans to reduce plastic waste are, and when they intend… Read the full story