If you’re like a lot of people, you feel guilty when it comes to plastic pollution, recycling problems, food waste, and climate change but lets look at How Supermarkets Make Us Polluters.

When you think about it, buy and use what is in their stores. i.e. immense amount of plastic packaged products knowing they can only recycle 9% of plastic is actually recycled.

Over-Buying Can Raise Your Cost of Living and Increases Food Waste

Foodstores regularly encourage us to over-buy and often that extra food goes to waste. This not only raises our cost of living but helps contribute to the UK’s 9.5 million tonnes of yearly food waste that clog our landfills and emit dangerous greenhouse methane gases.

Bulk shopping at superstores can be the worst. It’s a plastic shrink-wrap bulk-buy-bonanza! They encourage us to buy more than we need and hugely increasing the potential for major waste.

Many Plastics Contain Chemicals of concern

The chemicals found in food contact packaging are endocrine disruptors that have been linked to infertility and certain types of cancers.

Why are stores selling ready-made meals that we’re told to super heat in microwaves allowing chemicals to leach into our food?
Why are we not given safe packaging alternatives?

UK supermarkets produce over 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging each year but only 9% of all plastic is actually recycled

Where does all that plastic go?

Plastics that aren’t recycled, go on to poison our landfills, pollute our rivers and oceans or are sent to recovery stations that take lots of energy to burn them.

The Climate and Energy Bill and the Plastic Treaty are coming

When we vote in these great bills and treaties, they’ll be amazing BUT implementing them will take time AND we need to start now.

The 2021 plastic Pact Motivated Some Stores to reduce Their plastic

That’s not enough and it’s hard to tell exactly how much they’ve done. The fact that to make ANY PLASTIC requires burning fossil fuels means we need to stop using plastics. That’s a FULL STOP!

Fossil Fuels are burned to make 99% of all PLASTICS

The Supermarket Petition is LIVE!

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Hold our Supermarkets and suppliers accountable for all the plastic they sell us. We must demand change

We can’t wait for the Climate and Energy Bill and the Plastic Treaty to pass, we need to start now.

Stop fuelling the problem & start solving it
Stop making us polluters
Reduce our cost of living
improve our health
save our climate
Become climate-active influencers

The Big 5 – UK Biggest Supermarkets

Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASDA, Morrison’s and Aldi are the five biggest supermarkets in the UK so they need to lead the way for major change! NOW

If you’re tired of getting blamed for plastic pollution when you have no choice and if you worry about what the plastic is doing to your health then sign this Open Letter to UK supermarkets who produce over 900,000 tonnes of plastic packaging each year.

Let’s Tell them We want them to…

Eliminate single-use plastics
Stop selling all plastic carrier bags (even bags for life)
Supply safe non-plastic packaging for our health and the health of the planet.
Stop selling us plastic-packed ready meals that we super heat in microwaves allowing chemicals to leach into our food
Reduce Food Waste: Instead of selling us more than we need at a reduced price per piece (wrapped up in plastic packaging) sell us those same products individually at the reduced price.
Convert to sustainability stores that use refill stations to give us plastic-free packaging groceries (as all plastics are made from fossil fuels)
Supply water bottle refill stations
Provide on-site food waste recycling receptacles for shoppers to reduce methane gas emissions from landfills
Reduce food waste by sharing smarter shopping and storage tips and reduce bulk selling that wastes food
Install sustainable energy sources for your stores to lower overhead costs passed onto the consumers
Support and increase Vegan and vegetarian offerings to reduce deforestation and methane emissions
Eliminate bulk-packing of non-food items that you shrinkwrap in plastic

Watch for the petition that’s not only aimed at the UK’s largest supermarkets Sainsbury, Tesco, M&S, Waitrose, Aldi, Lidl but the rest of them too!