U.K.'s Iceland Foods commits to eliminate plastics from its stores

This is true leadership: @icelandfoods (U.K. food retailer) commits to eliminate plastic food packaging from its stores.

Read the full CBC article http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-375-serial-killer-fallout-super-bowl-ad-pranks-plastic-free-groceries-dead-people-suck-and-more-1.4510657/u-k-food-retailer-vows-to-be-the-world-s-first-to-go-plastic-free-1.4510678

Pictured is Richard Walker, Managing Director of Iceland Foods, holding new cardboard packaging on the right. The food retailer vows to end plastic packaging of its brands by 2023. (Source: Iceland Foods)



Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic waste are washing into the world's oceans on an annual basis.


Source: CBC.ca Plastics in the ocean


In the U.K. alone, the leading grocery retailers generate 800,000 tonnes of waste from plastic food packaging.
Source: cbc.ca.

Walker hopes that other food manufacturers will follow suit.

Are you listening Canada?? There are too many alternatives to single use plastics. It's time we get #toocoolforplastic #seriously #stopputtingplasticintheocean #whowillbethefirstcanadiantofollowsuit #compostablepackaging #pulpmouldedpackaging #icelandfoodswebowtoyourleadership