Tesco's excess packaging trials

A_fiend_for_life

Tesco's trialing excess packaging take back.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/01/tesco-packaging-waste-trial

The idea should be to eliminate unecessary packaging rather than getting an underestimate from customers.

busiscoming2

I wish our local store would do this, I'd love to leave excess plastic and cardboard at the till.

Duncan_H

I second that. it drives me crazy when somthing is wrapped inside a package, inside a place holder, inside a box, inside a plastic cover with a sticker on it!

Bongedone

Excellent news this. Somebody should trail bringing your own container to collect wine.

anudeglory

That's quite good, hopefully other supermarkets will take up this idea too.

I did have to laugh at the latest ASDA advert though, where they show some (Indian?) take-away style processed meal that now only comes in a strip of card instead of a box whilst simultaneously showing me all the needless cardboard stickers and boards they were installing all over the shelves and ceiling of the store! !!!!!!.

DCFC79

I read about this in the grocer last week, it seems asda trialled something similar a few years ago but stopped it due to lack of interest, hopefully though it will become a success

nickj_2

rather than the govt trying to get the consumer to pay tax on the rubbish tey create - they should tax the producer and give thema real incentive to cut out unnessesary packaging and to make their waste recyclable