date:Feb 27, 2020
A first-of-its-kind initiative in the UK will see discount supermarket Lidl roll out new food packaging made using plastic collected from beaches and coastline.
Between 80 and 90% of the plastic packaging that reaches the ocean enters from coastlines in developing regions such as South East Asia. The initiative will initially prevent more than 60 tonnes of plastic from being introduced to the ocean per year equivalent of 2.5 million plastic water bottles.
Lidl will initially roll out the pack