The Gap

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Asda launched a "sustainability store" to fill in where visitors to their own container with food.

customers at a Leeds branch will be able to use the refill stations for the own brand rice and pasta, as well as Kellogg's cereal and Pg Tips .

Asda is the latest major food retailer to Start an initiative to reduce plastic packaging.

UK supermarkets are responsible for 58 billion pieces of plastic per year, according to Greenpeace.

Asda used about 65,000 tons of plastics per year.

The "sustainability store" opens in may at the Asda Middleton place in Leeds.

"We will understand the exam and the learning of the clients in Middleton, how we can help our environment reduce the impact," said Asda chief executive Roger Burnley . "Our first priority will be to see how we can reduce and remove the plastic. "

- Daniel Webb , the founder of the campaign group Everyday plastic, said The Launch was "a big step" for companies such as Kellogg's and Unilever, whose products are included in the Asda study.

'Naked florist'

In-store studies take at least three months, with customers asked to give a feedback.

The business is house wrap a "naked " florist" means the sale of plastic-free bouquets of flowers, and also sell lots of products, such as cucumbers or mushrooms without plastic.

In addition, the industry is bottles of a "reverse vending machine" for recycled plastic.

Asda recently committed to the reduction of plastic by 15% until February next year, as well as all of its own-brand packaging is fully recyclable by 2025.

Morrisons says it has the highest percentage of loose fruit and vegetables, sale of the supermarket

Single-use plastic waste is a major topic for discussion following the BBC's Blue Planet II.

Big super markets have pledged to cut down on your plastic.

on Climate Change , as part of the Our Planet Matters project.

What was promised?

Waitrose has introduced the mines for wine, beer, cleaning materials, and loose fruit and vegetables-free packaging four branches, after a trial on his Botley Road store in Oxford.

He also has cups said it will remove all the black plastic of his own label ranges, and stopping the sale of single-use coffee.

This is an eye-catching experiment of Asda. to fill

It Follows from the Waitrose and its attempt, the customers are allowed to use their own container with food. It received a positive reaction from buyers, which is now being tested at three other stores.

Asda is taking things even further, by selling products from some of the biggest brands.

clearly, There is a growing demand for more sustainable shopping, but the big question is, with these two schemes, it is economically viable to Roll Out nationwide?

announced Other commitments of the major UK retailers:

the Switzerland-based global food giant Nestle on Thursday, it investments of up to £1 would. 6bn in the production of packaging for your food products recyclable.

the concerns of the consumers

Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said that Asda is another dealer was to respond to "increased consumer concerns about The Environment ."

He said: "It is a step in The Right direction, but we are in the early stages, in what is likely to be a very long journey. There is a huge learning curve, and a, the tests, The Gap between the is to say, what is consumer, you "want" and what you 'do' in Reality . "

proposed could have a Asda, to go further than other supermarkets.

It was the ninth of the UK's 10 largest supermarkets for the plastic "footprint".

Louise Edge, head of Greenpeace UK s ocean plastics campaign, said that Asda was the action of "encouraging".

But she argues that such systems should be carried out more widely: "We will never make our Way Out of this crisis, Asda and other UK supermarkets to recycle needs urgent plastic reduce by switching to reusable and returnable packaging on a large Scale . "

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Source of news: bbc.com