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Waitrose is set to pull all 10p bags for life ... By extending the charge to all retailers, it is hoped the use of single-use carrier bags will fall by 70-80 per cent in small and medium-sized ...
Waitrose will reintroduce its carrier bag recycling scheme for online deliveries from 17 August. The initiative was temporarily stopped in March due to coronavirus, and will make a return after ...
Waitrose was the first UK retailer to provide its customers with reusable, long-life carrier bags. It estimates that it has saved 54 million free carrier bags from being used. Focusing largely on ...
Waitrose & Partners has announced that it will stop offering single-use plastic bags in its fruit and vegetable aisles and remove 5p carrier bags from its stores, a move that will cut its plastic ...
High-end food store Waitrose is considering charging customers 50p for each reusable carrier bag in an effort to deter shoppers from stockpiling single-use ones. Customers across Kent could see an ...
Waitrose is also running an experiment at ... Stores currently hand out 13 billion carrier bags a year, most of which end up in landfills where they can take more than 100 years to decay.
Waitrose has pumped £1 million of money raised from carrier bag levies into funding plastic-free projects across the UK. The supermarket giant has partnered with environmental charity Hubbub to l ...
A party animal dad jetted off to Ibiza for 24 hours of raving - with nothing but a change of clothes in a Waitrose carrier bag. Andy Armstrong, 64, was challenged by his colleagues to go on a 24 ...
some retailers including Iceland and Waitrose charge £1 - an 85p difference. Health retailers Superdrug and Boots also charge £1 for longer life carriers. Retailers sell two types of bags ...
A 64-year-old dad, went on a 24-hour rave in Ibiza with nothing but a change of clothes in a Waitrose carrier bag. Challenged by his workmates, Andy Armstrong, embarked on the trip this month and ...