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The top supermarkets are creating a plastic waste problem of more than 800,000 tonnes each year – well over half of all annual UK household plastic waste of 1.5m tonnes 800,000 tonnes of waste from food and beverage products would fill enough large 10-yard skips to extend from London to

Unprecedented growth in the production and sale of plastics is triggering disastrous environmental consequences. Plastic production has increased twentyfold in the past half-century and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. In the 60 years since large-scale production of plastics began, 79% of plastic waste globally has