Upmarket grocer Marks and Spencer has started to trial refillable cleaning and laundry products as part of its plans to tackle plastic waste.
The trial will initially only launch in six stores, but if successful, could roll out to the chain's 1,000+ stores in the UK, including those in Newcastle, Durham and Metrocentre.
M&S Refillable follows on from the supermarket’s packaging-free Fill Your Own concept, which was launched in 2019 and sees customers fill up tubs of loose produce to save on plastic waste. Now available in 14 stores, Fill Your Own allows customers to use their own packaging to buy more than 60 grocery lines, including pasta, rice, cereal and nuts. The scheme is estimated to have removed 350,000 units of single-use packaging.
