Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering shoppers for years and supermarkets have responded by ...

Shoppers are turning against ‘over packaged’ supermarket products shrouded in plastic – and avoiding products that come wrapped in needless packaging. More than a third of British shoppers (39%) have ...

Amazon said its plastic packaging footprint came to 97,222 metric tons in 2021. The environmental group Oceana estimates the waste was more than three times that amount. Amazon is under pressure to ...

This year recycling got a great deal easier. Investment in new technologies at recycling centres means that all plastic packaging waste, including soft plastic, can now be placed in your household ...