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Plastics and packaging
We have a target for all our own-brand packaging to be widely recyclable, reusable or home compostable by 2025. So far, nearly 97% meets that target.
We're continuing to remove unnecessary packaging in our supply chain where we can, and introduce alternative materials to make recycling easier.”
Action on PLASTICS in our shops and SUPPLY CHAIN
- We have a target for all our own-brand packaging to be widely recyclable, reusable or home compostable by 2025. So far, nearly 97% meets that target.
- We're also very mindful of how we source our packaging. For example, we're launching some exciting, first to market, new packaging materials across our Indian ready meals. This packaging uses kerbside-collected recycled materials from UK homes, recycling them back into food-safe packaging – avoiding using virgin materials.
- We have a range of fruit and veg with no packaging, and have worked with climate NGO WRAP to test new in-store messaging designed to encourage customers to shop more of this fantastic loose produce.
- We are working on a number of initiatives to reduce unnecessary packaging, such as removing fruit and veg stick-on labels, and removing plastic windows from our in-store bakery.
- We use coastal recovered plastic in some of our ready meal trays and punnets for fresh fruit. This is sourced from discarded plastic collected within 30 miles of coastlines at risk of ocean plastic pollution.
- Across a selection of products, where it does not affect quality or food waste, we have changed the material of our packaging to ensure it is easier to recycle.
- In 2023, 100% of our own-brand Easter egg and confectionery packaging is recyclable. We’ve reduced our overall Easter packaging weight by nearly 20%.
- We're members of the Global Ghost Gear initiative, which aims to protect marine life and minimise plastic pollution from abandoned fishing equipment.
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