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Related Keywords: bags, consumer, fruit, Lidl, long term, packaging, plastic, plastic waste, polyester, recycling, reusable, UK, vegetable

Lidl has said that it has become the first supermarket in the UK to introduce reusable fruit and vegetable bags across all stores nationwide to help reduce plastic waste in the long term.

A Lidl spokesman told Bio Market Insights that the bags were made from durable polyester and were designed to be “machine-washable and long lasting”.

The bags, priced at 69p for two, aim to provide customers with a reusable alternative to single-use, small fruit and vegetable bags.

Related Keywords: BOPET, carbon footprint, chemical, PET, plastic waste, polyerster, production, recyclate, recycling, rPET, USFDA

Chemical Recycling Enables Production of Polyester Film Containing 70% Post-Consumer Recyclate.

The development of these films was made possible thanks to investments in chemical recycling. This technology uses post-consumer PET bottles. The bottle flakes are depolymerized to monomers and in the further polymerization transformed to PCR PET resins suitable for extrusion into BOPET films. This operation can be repeated indefinitely and the BOPET produced with this technology are suitable for direct food contact in accordance to USFDA and European legislation.

Related Keywords: Alcis, durable and recyclable material, environment-friendly and cost-effective, FIFA fan-wear merchandise, Paragon Apparels, plastic waste, R-PET, Recycled polyester, T-Shirts

The company has also joined forces with Flipkart to sell official FIFA fan-wear merchandise purely. A performance wear brand promoted by Paragon Apparels, Alcis said that it will manufacture 50 per cent of its apparel from recycled polyester, which is derived from plastic waste.