Health and beauty retailer Boots is set to ban all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres by the end of the year.
The pharmacy chain, which sold more than 800 million wet wipes in the last year, said it would replace plastic-based wipes with plant-based biodegradable alternatives following a reformulating of its own-brand wipe ranges to remove plastic.
Boots is said to be one of the UK's bigger sellers of wet wipes with more than 140 different lines stocked across their skincare, baby, tissue and health care categories.
