The former boss of Asda, one of Britain’s biggest
supermarkets, Andy Clarke, is calling for supermarkets to stop using
plastic packaging. He says that billions of pounds of investment in recycling
have failed to resolve the world’s plastic crisis. Andy Clarke said the only
solution was to reject plastic entirely in favour of more sustainable
alternatives like paper, steel, glass and aluminium. Supermarkets should create
plastic-free aisles. Efforts to recycle more plastic have failed to stem the
plastic crisis, said Clarke, who stood down as Asda CEO last year.
A recent investigation established that
consumers around the world buy a million
plastic bottles a minute and plastic production is set to
double in the next 20 years and quadruple by 2050. In the UK less than a third
(29%) of the 5m tones of plastic used each year is recovered and recycled. In the
world more than 8m tones of plastic end up to the oceans. A recent study found that
billions of people in the world are drinking water
contaminated by plastic. Between 5m and 13m tones of plastic end in
the world’s oceans each year to be ingested by sea birds, fish and other
organisms. Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium recently
calculated people who eat seafood ingest up to 11,000 tiny
pieces of plastic every year.
Our environment forms our home. Our world is our source of life and we can't damage it. The plastic is one of the elements that is more difficult to recycle, reason why we need to pay more attention.
Our environment forms our home. Our world is our source of life and we can't damage it. The plastic is one of the elements that is more difficult to recycle, reason why we need to pay more attention.
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