Asda to stop offering plastic carrier bags with online grocery shopping, in latest plastic-saving initiative

Asda is to stop providing single-use plastic carrier bags with its online grocery orders, in a move that will remove around 85 million plastic bags from production each year. Following a successful trial period in South-West England and from its Dartford Home Shopping Centre, Asda will remove the option to have a ‘bagged’ delivery on all grocery home shopping and click & collect orders nationwide from 31st July, resulting in a saving of over 500 tonnes of plastic. The decision makes Asda the first supermarket to eliminate single-use carrier bags*…

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