Sainsbury's supermarket chain, the largest food retailer in the United Kingdom, recently decided to use compostable bags instead of the original plastic bags to achieve the goal of saving 3,500 metric tons per year of plastic packaging.
The group's general manager, Justin King, said it expects 150 million plastic and plastic bags containing food and organic food will disappear each year. "In this way, you can save more than 4,000 metric tons of fossil fuels each year."
The company is allegedly trying biodegradable packaging made from corn, sugar cane and starch, but the company’s spokesman refused to disclose which packaging company it was working with.
Sainsbury's claimed that the replacement of bags can be described as a once-packaged environmental protection revolution and the largest ever eradication of the appearance of plastic bags on the streets of the United Kingdom.
The initiative is another major packaging revolution following the adoption of corn compostable plastic bags last week by IKEA.
Source: China Printing & Packaging Network
