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Sainsbury’s rethinks plastic packaging for bakery products

23 Sep, 2024

UK retailer Sainsbury's has reduced plastic use across its in-store bakery products to decrease waste.

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UK retailer Sainsbury’s has reduced plastic use across its in-store bakery products to decrease waste.

Doughnuts and pastries, which were previously in plastic clam-shell packaging, will switch to cardboard and paper packaging. Sainsbury’s said this was a 90% plastic reduction, which will reportedly reduce plastic packaging by 414 tonnes annually.

Doughnuts will switch to card boxes with a window, while twin-pack pastries will move to paper bags.

In-store bakery bread will see up to a 60% reduction in plastic through the removal of full plastic bags across loaves, baguettes and batons, with these being replaced with recyclable paper bags with a plastic window. According to Sainsbury’s, this will save around 152 tonnes of plastic a year.

Plastic windows can reportedly be “easily separated” from the card boxes and paper bags and recycled at Sainsbury’s supermarkets, and card and paper can be recycled at home in kerbside recycling.

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