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Drop the packaging
9:12am Friday 25th July 2008
A SALE and Altrincham Euro-MP has called on supermarkets to slash unnecessary packaging in a bid to reduce Britain’s huge waste mountain.
Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies launched his own ‘scrap the wrap’ campaign against plastic wrapping for fruit and vegetables three years ago.
A new Local Government Association report revealed that up to 38 percent of packaging in a regular household shopping basket is unrecyclable, and 4.6 million tons of packaging waste is filling landfill sites and increasing grocery bills.
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