A local grocery company has gone to court trying to force the V.I. Waste Management Authority to let it continue using plastic bags. World Fresh Market LLC, which operates four Pueblo Grocery ...

Spar goes green with new shopping bags Spar has launched a new range of eco-friendly shopping bags that would make Mother Nature proud. November 1, 2018.

SPAR Hungary has also secured special authorisation to allow it to transfer the necessary amount of plastic film waste to its partner, Papier-Mettler, for the production of recycled shopping bags.

SPAR has also committed to having 100% of plastic packaging which is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. “SPAR is one of the founding members of the South African plastics pact.

All its carrier bags are now made from 100% recycled materials, with a minimum of 70% post-consumer waste, and are 100% recyclable, diverting about 4 000 t/y of plastic waste from landfills.

Spar has initiated a shift from a linear to a circular economy in which plastic and other forms ... Galtrey explains that the flagship sustainability project has been its plastic carrier bags: ...

Spar told us that its plastic bags are 20p each and that the money from the bags is funnelled back into the local community by company-owned stores.

Plastic bag waste dropped slightly from 157,395 tons in 2014 to 139,810 in 2018. It seemed like the ban was working. The pandemic changed all that. Concerns for the environment gave way to worries ...