Tesco becomes first major UK retailer to ban plastic wet-wipes

A new move to scrap all baby wipes containing plastic was made by Tesco from March 14.   The supermarket, which is the UK’s biggest seller of baby wipes, will no longer sell branded baby wipes containing plastic.  As Tesco stopped using plastic in its own label baby wipes two years ago the entire range will now be plastic-free.   The move is significant as Tesco sells more than 75 million packs or 4.8 billion individual baby wipes each year.    It’s not just baby wipes that have been reformulated by the…

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