Plastic Waste

Spar Austria Introduces Reusable Shopping Bags

Spar Austria is trialling a new reusable shopping bag in its stores across the country, providing customers with an alternative to single-use plastic bags....

UK Retailers Say Bottle Deposit Return Scheme Could Cost £1bn

Earlier this week, the UK government announced plans to introduce a deposit return scheme for single-use drinks containers, in a bid to cut down on plastic...

Lidl Ireland To Reduce Plastic Packaging By 20% In Five Years

Lidl Ireland has announced new targets for plastic reduction in its own-brand packaging, as part of wider sustainability efforts. By 2022, the discount...

Aldi UK Sets Recyclable Packaging Goals, Scraps Plastic Bags

Aldi UK has announced plans to ensure that all packaging on its private-label products will be recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022. In this with...

K Group Eliminates Microbeads From Pirkka Cosmetics

Finnish retail company K Group has announced it has removed microbeads from its Pirkka cosmetics products. The commitment to eliminate the small plastic...

Asda Pledges To Reduce Plastic Packaging By 10% In 2018

Asda has become the latest UK retailer to outline its plans to reduce plastic packaging as part of the ongoing war on waste. The supermarket group has v...

Recycling Company Calls For More Plastic Waste Cooperation

International recycling company Vanden Recycling has called the current 30% recycling rate of consumer plastic packaging 'woeful', while demanding new and...

Co-Op To Develop Fully-Biodegradable Tea Bag

UK retail group the Co-op is developing a new fully-biodegradable paper tea bag, with the aim of reducing the amount of waste created by the popular bevera...