Asda has announced that it is rolling out a major change across more than 600 stores in a move that will be less harmful to the environment.
The supermarket giant, which operates around 634 UK stores, has confirmed that it will be replacing the coloured caps on all its own-label fresh milk with clear coloured caps.
Set to roll out this month, the change will affect all milk products, including skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, organic, and filtered milk, as the grocer aims to make its food packaging more recyclable.
The grocer is rolling out the change in partnership with Arla, the UK's biggest dairy coperative, which will also see it affect Yeo Valley Fresh Milk.
The switch to colourless caps will mean that 268 tonnes of High-Density Polythene (rHDPE) can be recycled to make new milk bottles, and will see 207 million plastic milk caps recycled this way every year.
Made from 30 percent recycled material already, the new caps can be easily recycled back into food grade packaging, which is something that cannot be done with the current coloured caps.
While Asda will be switching out the red, blue and green caps for colourless versions, shoppers can still distinguish milk types by the coloured labelling on all bottles.
Fiona Dobson, Lead Packaging Strategy and Innovation Manager at Asda, said: "At Asda, we are committed to finding ways to reduce our environmental impact. The introduction of clear caps on our milk bottles, is part of our wider commitment to drive 100% recyclability packaging and increase recycled content levels across all of our products by 2025."
The move comes just after Aldi also announced that it would be rolling out the colourless caps across all its milk products at the end of last month.
The change has been popping up in major supermarkets since last year, with Lidl, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose also rolling out the clear caps in a bid to become more environmentally friendly.
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