British supermarket Sainsbury's vows to halve plastic packaging by 2025

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's second-biggest supermarket, Sainsbury's, vowed on Friday to halve plastic packaging by 2025, promising to switch to alternative materials and refillable options to meet consumer demand for less waste. Having reduced plastic packaging by just 1% in 2018, Sainsbury's said a "transformational leap in thinking" was required to tackle the almost 120,000 tonnes of plastic packaging it uses a year. It said it used the most plastic in milk bottles, packaging for fruit and..