Tesco
The 5p per bag law encouraged Tesco’s to recycle plastic waste in stores, such as pallets and
multi-pack wrapping to create new single use carrier bags created using 100% of LDPE. The bags
are now made up of eighty per cent of post-consumer plastic waste, combined with the other
twenty per cent coming from waste in the production process onsite at Tesco’s (Waqas Qureshi,
2015.) In the past year Tesco’s have been able to identify where charity contribution can be made,
and where sustainability methods can be withheld to make the company as a whole more green
and consciously environmentally friendly. Fare Share Food Cloud App was set up in June 2015 as
a way for Tesco to reduce their food waste levels. This allowed for local charities to go onto the
app, and find out which Tesco establishments had surplus food that’s sell by date is no longer
purchasable to customers. A positive to come out of this is the fact that less food wastage is
occurring, and therefore gives others the chance to recycle the packaging from the food products.
Tesco also hit back at the newest government legislation that was to effect the way consumers
shop and another enforcement needed to be put in place by all large retailers.
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