Online Supermarkets Use Too Many Plastic Bags
A survey has shown that online supermarkets tend to use too many plastic bags when delivering goods.
Which? researchers ordered 29 items from the five top online supermarkets – Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrosedeliver – and compared the usage of plastic bags in each online order.
The researchers found that some supermarkets were packing a single product such as mince, Fairy Liquid or a multi-pack of crisps into a single plastic bag, when multiple products in the same order could have easily been put into the same plastic bag. In particular, the researchers criticized Tesco and Sainsbury’s as they both used a much larger number of plastic bags than any of the other supermarkets. Tesco and Sainsbury’s both used 14 bags to pack the 29 items; Waitrose used 7, Ocado 10 and Asda 9.
Most online supermarkets will now allow consumers to give back plastic bags with their next order so that the bags can be recycled.
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