Sainsbury’s has switched its own-brand twin pack avocado packaging from plastic to paper in a move which it says will save 20.2 million pieces of plastic a year upon full rollout.
The Consumer Council discovered that almost half of the retailers they checked did not follow Hong Kong’s plastic bag levy. It is telling shops to use less packaging for their items and give ...
Merchants are all for cutting down on the use of plastic bags, but consumers must also be taught not to insist on having them, says the Federation of Hawkers and Traders Associations of Malaysia.
The savings equated to a reduction of approximately 2,400t of plastic. Credit: Roman Striga/Shutterstock. The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has reported a conservation of 364 million single-use ...