Plastic packaging has no place in food and drink. There is no logical basis for wrapping something as perishable as food with something as indestructible as plastic. The world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic problem, which is why a supermarket chain in the Netherlands is rolling out plastic-free aisles across each of its 74 stores. With the grocery retail sector accounting for more than 40 percent of all plastic packaging, we need more supermarkets to follow suit.
A Dutch supermarket chain is going plastic-free
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