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Are supermarkets selling us short over plastic packaging for loose produce?

Podcast: The leading UK supermarkets have made limited progress in reducing plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables, despite signing up to the UK Plastics Pact’s voluntary commitment to sell at least 30 per cent of uncut fresh produce loose by 2025.

But the new EIA report UK Supermarket Sale of Loose Unpackaged Produce – Trends, barriers and opportunities reveals that transparency about loose produce sales has actually worsened since our last comparable dataset in 2021.

In this episode, EIA Ocean Campaigner Lauren Weir unwraps the facts with Senior Press and Communications Officer Paul Newman.

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Are supermarkets selling us short over plastic packaging for loose produce?

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Crimes that Affect the Environment

STILL a critical threat to our future In our landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, we were the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In our new report Crimes that Affect the Environment – Still a critical threat to our future, we conclude that in the interim environmental crime and abuse has actually grown more sophisticated, more lucrative and even more damaging to the planet and human society.