{"id":92459,"date":"2021-02-01T07:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=92459"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:28:26","slug":"auto-draft-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/02\/01\/auto-draft-473\/","title":{"rendered":"UK study suggests supermarket overuse of plastic packaging blighting planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"RFI \u2014 Major supermarket chains remain big users of plastic packaging that blights the environment, despite efforts to cut down, according to research published on Tuesday. The study focuses on the UK, but may be an indication for the overuse of plastics by supermarkets worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ten supermarkets researched in the study produced almost 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019, according to pressure groups Greenpeace UK<\/a> and the Environmental Investigation Agency<\/a> (EIA).<\/p>\n

That was 1.6 percent less than in 2018.<\/p>\n

“We had hoped to see a much sharper downwards trajectory as strategies and targets bear fruit,” said EIA senior campaigner Christina Dixon in the agency’s\u00a0latest annual report based on supermarkets’ own data.<\/p>\n

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“Instead, we are looking at a relatively static picture which represents a drop in the ocean of tackling plastic pollution. The sector urgently needs to pick up the pace of plastic reduction,” the EIA insisted.<\/p>\n

Plastic footprints<\/h2>\n

Many supermarkets are tackling the use of plastic packaging in their own-branded products — but much remains to be done about packaging of products by third-party companies, the report noted.<\/p>\n

“We would like to see supermarkets increasingly taking the fight to the big manufacturers and compelling them in turn to drive down their own plastic footprints,” Dixon said.<\/p>\n

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