Sainsbury's has announced a major change to its packaging in a bid to become greener. The supermarket giant has replaced the plastic trays in its steak ranges with a cardboard alternative, which it says will reduce plastic waste by around 70 per cent per tray.
The new trays have launched across 10 products in its Sainsbury's Steak range and are now available for all in store and online purchases. The trays can be recycled at home, by rinsing them out with the rest of your recycling and putting out with your kerbside recycling.
The supermarket introduced the packaging with its Taste the Difference and So Organic steaks previously. It comes after a series of changes made by the supermarket to up its sustainability - stores removed the trays from its whole chickens in April and introduced cardboard cartons to its own-brand liquid laundry detergent.
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Claire Hughes, director of product and innovation at Sainsbury’s, said: “As part of our Plan for Better commitments, we are trying to reduce plastic packaging across our own brand ranges, as we know that reducing plastic is important to our customers but also on our environmental impact.
"It’s why we are always looking at ways to innovate our packaging and reduce or replace plastic wherever we can, as quickly as we can. We’re pleased to save another 10 million pieces of plastic a year by swapping our by Sainsbury’s steak trays to cardboard following the changes we have already made on So Organic and Taste the Difference packaging.
"While we are making good progress, we know there is more to do and we are committed to making bold changes that help us achieve our plastic reduction targets.”
