02 Dec 2019 --- Despite public commitments to reduce the use of virgin plastic, the plastic packaging sold by major UK supermarkets has risen to more than 900,000 metric tons annually, an Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) report has found. Conducted in partnership with Greenpeace, the report - Checking Out on Plastics II: Breakthroughs and backtracking from supermarkets - revealed that seven from the top 10 supermarkets had increased their plastic footprint. Only Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have achieved small reductions.
