Sainsbury’s has made changes to several of its in-store bakery products as part of its push to reduce plastic waste.
All doughnuts and pastries previously in plastic clam-shell style packaging are switching to cardboard and paper packaging – a 90% plastic reduction – which will reduce plastic packaging by 414 tonnes annually. Doughnuts are switching to card boxes with a small window, and twin-pack pastries, as well as croissants and cinnamon swirls, are moving to paper bags.
Meanwhile, in-store bakery bread will see up to a 60% reduction in plastic through the removal of full plastic bags across loaves, baguettes and batons. These have been replaced with recyclable paper bags with a plastic window, saving around 152 tonnes of plastic a year. Sainsbury’s will be rolling out the changes over the coming months.
The development is the latest in a string of changes made by the retailer on packaging, with its most recent biggest single plastics removal on mushroom punnets, saving around 775 tonnes of plastic annually. Sainsbury’s was also the first UK retailer to switch all its kitchen and toilet roll packaging from plastic to paper, saving over 485 tonnes of plastic a year.
Sainsbury’s recently launched a ‘Good to Know’ logo to help customers find products that are more sustainable, such as those with reduced plastic packaging.
