“The data reported for plastic packaging put on the market as a whole is an underestimate in our view,” said Hogg. Aldi’s plastic packaging has increased from 37,261 tonnes in 2013 to 64,000 tonnes in 2016. Iceland this week said it would eliminate plastic packaging on all its own-brand products within five years. A spokeswoman said the agency could not disclose figures of how much plastic packaging individual supermarkets were responsible for as a result. The only information publicly available is aggregated data for all packaging materials on the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD).

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2018 14:29 UTC