Progress against the Targets

Removing plastic wrap from fresh produce items, plastic trays from fresh whole chickens and replacing plastic straws with paper straws on lunchbox juice cartons.

In partnership with Linden Foods, Ocado have brought to market a new steak packaging format with 50% less plastic.

Tesco has removed more than 1.7 billion pieces of plastic including from plastic wrapped tinned multipacks.

Asda and Unilever partner with WRAP to explore how citizens interact with instore refill zones.

Sainsbury's new refillable handwash pouches use 85% less plastic than handwash bottles, saving of 28 tonnes of plastic every year and can be recycled at the Front of Store collection points.

Lucozade Sport rolled out a bottle redesign featuring a 50% reduction in its sleeve, which means the bottles are optimised for bottle-to-bottle recycling.

Refilled is being trialled across six stores offering pre-filled cleaning and laundry products. Customers have a choice of eight products, including laundry detergents, washing up liquid and cleaning sprays.

Ahead of the national rollout of kerbside collections for plastic bags and wrapping, Ecosurety, Recoup, Suez and WRAP have embarked on the most extensive pilot ever for household collection and recycling of this challenging material.

Working with Veolia and Dobbies Garden Centres, consumers bring their Miracle-Gro compost bags back to store for the bags to be processed into garden furniture.

A QR code on-pack takes users to the 'snackrite' platform where amongst other sustainability initiatives, users are directed to the Recycle Now's Recycling Locator to help them find out what packaging materials can be recycled near them.

Morrisons will become the first supermarket to own its own recycling operations through the acquisition of a significant stake in a new recycling site in Fife. They have committed to recycle and reuse the equivalent amount of plastic it puts on to the market within its own recycling facilities by 2025.

Using their phones, visitors scanned barcodes on their empty drink containers and the QRcode on the collection point in return for a prize draw entry. This pilot was a way to increase recycling rates and help evian identify how to make recycling initiatives engaging and easy to use.

Jayplas opened a new washing and pelletising plant for plastic bags and wrapping. It has increased their capacity for this material to 50,000 tonnes. It will remove contamination such as paper, food and dirt from material collected at front of store before being processed into pellets for use in a broad range of end market applications.

Nestle brand KitKat UK & Ireland will transition to a minimum 80% recycled plastic across its packaging by 2024, starting with the flagship two-finger product from Autumn 2022.

Heinz collaborated with SABIC, Berry Global and Plastic Energy to produce Heinz Beanz Snap Pots made from post-consumer plastic waste, collected from front of store collection points.

Mondelez International’s Cadbury Dairy Milk and Cadbury Mini Snowballs are now wrapped in packaging with 30% recycled plastic. Using the mass balance approach, the post-consumer, recycled plastic packaging will be independently certified by ISCC and supplied in partnership with Amcor.

Kingsmill worked with their bread bag supplier (St Johns Packaging) and SABIC to introduce the first ever bread bag featuring 30% advanced recycled content. The equivalent of 750,000 virgin plastic bags were removed from Kingsmill’s supply chain during the year-long trial.

Cranswick Country Foods has moved to a new fully recyclable, foodsafe barrier film with 30% recycled content, supplied by Yorkshire Packaging Systems (YPS), for use across the business' poultry range.

Hilton Foods UK and Fairfax Meadow introduced a lidding film for MAP trays which contains 30% recycled content from chemically recycled PET. The thinner film lid will reduce plastic used by 18T and has a CO2 saving of 32T per annum.