Sainsbury’s is set to switch its plastic coffee pods to aluminium, a move which will save over 10 million pieces of plastic every year.
The change will affect the whole of the Big 4 grocer‘s own-brand coffee range, making all of its pods fully recyclable and allowing its shoppers to recycle the products at home once emptied and rinsed.
This has also seen Sainsbury’s reducing the amount of cardboard across its range by 20% through packaging and transportation changes.
Earlier this year, the retailer launched its own-brand one litre refillable handwash pouch made with 85% less plastic and replaced the plastic packaging on its five-pack Fairtrade bananas with a paper bag, as it looks to halve its own-brand plastic packaging by 2025.
As well as plastic waste, Sainsbury’s recently launched an initiative to help its shoppers prevent food waste.
It’s ‘Sainsfreeze’ pop-up freezer store initiative, which took place at Box Park in Shoreditch earlier this week, looked to inform its customers on how to prevent food waste at home while giving out free frozen produce.
This comes as according to research from climate action NGO WRAP, freezing food could make a big dent in the £730 a year British households throw away through food waste.
