Tesco has taken 454 tons of hard-to-recycle plastic out of use

For the past 18 months, Tesco has worked closely with its suppliers to redesign the packaging of products containing locally difficult-to-recycle materials to find the right substitutes together. With the change in production technology, the store chain has replaced 454 tons of non-recyclable plastics with other alternatives in countries in the Central European region, such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. This corresponds to more than 88 percent of the hard-to-recycle materials found in its own-brand products and represents a huge step forward in the transition to 100 percent recyclable packaging by 2025.