Salford Sainsbury's store on Regent Road was 'decorated' with posters reading 'Sainsbury's couldn't care less' yesterday as campaigners reacted to new Greenpeace research concluding that the company is the worst performer on plastic reduction of all major UK supermarkets.
Since January 2018, Sainsbury's has promised to cut just 77 tonnes of plastic packaging, while Asda achieved 6,500 tonnes of reductions. Greenpeace is calling on Sainsbury's to get rid of pointless plastic packaging, and phase out plastic that can't be recycled by 2020.
"As I was going to do my weekly shop, I saw seven posters decorating Sainsbury's on Regent Road" says Connah Snape, a student at Salford University "I'm really disappointed to learn that Sainsbury's, despite being the UK's second largest supermarket, couldn't care less about plastic pollution."
Martin Porter, Coordinator of the Manchester Greenpeace Group, explains: "Hundreds of customers across the UK have written messages to Sainsbury's, and close to a million people have signed Greenpeace's petition calling on UK supermarkets to ditch throwaway plastic packaging.
"We were collecting messages to Sainsbury's from their customers in Greater Manchester, including Salford, in February, which we handed in to their flagship store in Cheadle" he adds "Unfortunately, although most of the customers, and many of the staff we met were sympathetic, Sainsbury's isn't listening. That's why Greenpeace decided to teach Sainsbury's the basics".
To sign the Greenpeace petition to 'ditch throwaway plastic packaging' – click here
To see the full results on supermarkets' plastic packaging reductions – click here
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