Great news! After over 35,000 of you told Sainsbury’s and Waitrose to extend their plastic-free shopping trials to all their stores, Sainsbury's is getting rid of plastic bags in its fruit and veg sections -- and halving all of its plastic packaging by 2025.
If Sainsbury's can do it, Waitrose can too. But its team just needs a push from you.
Use the form below to email Waitrose, and demand it roll its plastic-free schemes to every store across the country.
Some bullet points to keep in mind:
- Waitrose has already started plastic-free trials in a handful of its stores -- we want to see these rolled out now!
- Sainsbury’s has promised it will do away with lightweight plastic bags in its fruit and vegetable sections by the end of this month, as part of a plan to halve all of its plastic packaging by 2025.
- Last month, Tesco pledged to ban brands that use excessive plastic packaging from its shelves.
- A total of 8 million tonnes of plastic ends up in our seas every year -- that’s the equivalent to five shopping bags of waste on every foot of coastline!
- It is estimated that every year, over a million seabirds and over 100,000 other marine animals -- like seals and whales -- die from plastic in our oceans.