Customers will notice a big difference the next time they visit a Sainsbury’s bakery, as the supermarket has introduced new packaging.
In order to save plastic, the new packaging is said to reduce plastic by more than 560 tons per year.
Changes to pastries, donuts and baguettes in the store bakery save plastic when they switch to paper.
Products such as donuts and pastries used to be packed in clamshell-type packaging, but they are moving to cardboard and paper.
Sainsbury’s said the move will reduce plastic by 90 per cent, reducing plastic packaging by 414 tonnes a year.
Donuts are moving to card boxes with a small window, and double packs of pastries, croissants and cinnamon swirls are moving to paper bags.
The amount of plastic in bakery bread sold in the store is reduced by up to 60 percent by removing filled plastic bags from bread, baguettes and bars.
They have been replaced by recyclable paper bags with plastic windows, saving 152 tonnes of plastic per year.
Customers can currently expect to see changes in all stores over the coming months.
Sainsbury’s said the window on the new packaging can be easily separated from the box and paper bag.
This can then be recycled at any recycling point at the front of the supermarket store. Card and paper can be recycled at home in curbside recycling.
This is the latest change from the supermarket following its recent decision to remove single plastics from the sponge tube, saving around 775 tonnes of plastic each year.
Sainsbury’s was also the first retailer to switch all its kitchen and toilet paper packaging from plastic to paper, saving more than 480 tonnes a year.
Other supermarkets, such as Aldi, are also working to reduce their use of plastic, and recently removed plastic packaging from bananas.
