Lidl

[maggiebee]

Step in the right direction.

"This month we're removing black plastic from our entire fruit and veg range, and are berry peased to be the first supermarket in the UK to do this."

https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Packaging-and-plastic-12985.htm

Hope others will follow - cucumbers in plastic is just ridiculous.

[hc4361]

Swede packed in thick plastic is annoying, too
What's wrong with the cardboard punnets soft fruit used to be sold in?

[chelle7272]

Great move, well done Lidl

[Hopkirk]

berry?

[Hopkirk]

peased?

[rowanwitch]

I try to buy my veg from the loose rather than prepackaged area and I don't bag any larger items. If I take a bag it will be used later often I will have a few in one of my shopping bags so I don't need fresh ones. Plastic punnets are used for seed trays before going into recycling but black plastic is so hard to recycle. I try to avoid all but the loaf pan shaped ones which are brilliant for growing veg shoots. After they have been re-used for batch cooked meals a few times.

[douglas9401]

Humour, Hopkirk, try it, you might like it. :-)

[Tilly2]

Good for them. Waitrose are doing something similar.

[pastafreak]

And the Co-op have introduced compostable carrier bags.

[spathiphyllum]

"By 2022, the amount of own brand plastic packaging will be reduced by 20% "


I would have expected better.. Just black plastic? Oh OK but it's OK to individually wrap grapes in clear plastic