Midsomer Norton local Tesco's among first in UK to trial recycling soft plastics
By Susie Watkins
15th Mar 2021 | Local News
The nearest Tesco supermarket is one of those earmarked in a new trial recycling so called 'soft plastics.'
The store in Paulton has a deposit site in the store and is one of 171 large Tesco stores across Wales and the South West taking part in the pilot.
The recycling scheme will take plastics including cling film, pet food pouches and crisp packets.
Last year ten stores took part in a smaller trial of the new type of collections, with the material collected used to make food-grade packaging for Tesco own-brand cheeses.
Environmentalists estimate that if the pilot is successful and Tesco's puts a collection point in all of its large UK stores - that would make it the largest network of recycling points for this type of plastic and lead to recycling around 1,000 tonnes of soft plastics each year.
UK supermarkets generate around 800,000 tonnes of plastic packaging every year, according to Greenpeace.
WWF Sustainable Materials Specialist Paula Chin, said:
"Plastic pollution is one of the most visible symptoms of the environmental crisis and is devastating our natural world. Businesses, governments and households have all got an important part to play in tackling the issue, so it's encouraging to see Tesco extending their successful soft plastics collection trial across more of their stores, giving their customers even more opportunity to recycle these valuable materials." Sainsbury's already has a trial underway for in-store take-back and recycling schemes for flexible and soft plastics at 63 shops in the North East of England.
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