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Right now, the industry still argues that plastic packaging protects our food in transit, extends freshness, prevents spoilage and reduces waste. Many of us use soft plastic take back schemes to recycle this. But we want to know - are recycling solutions like this, enough?

Most soft plastic collected for recycling is burned, campaigners say theguardian.com/environment/20…

Reminder - recycling is a poor third option behind reduce & reuse. And it is often a con, particularly with #PlasticWaste. We have to stop ALL unnecessary single-use plastic production, which is nearly all of it thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Up to 70 per cent of soft plastics given to supermarket recycling schemes end up being incinerated, an investigation has found. Matilda Davies reports: thetimes.com/uk/environment…

🚨 NEW: Up to 70 per cent of soft plastic given to supermarket recycling schemes ends up being incinerated More on the shocking investigation by Everyday Plastic and Environmental Investigation Agency U.S. below 🧵👇 1/ Read the full story in The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/51649d…

Tesco and Sainsbury’s might not be recycling your plastic. An investigation found 70% of the plastic tracked from the supermarket to a known destination was incinerated. Supermarkets and food companies can face legal action for misleading recycling claims: brnw.ch/21wNldM

NEWS | Sainsbury’s and Tesco “misleading” customers over recycling Major supermarkets accused of “misleading” customers over recycling after campaigners tracked 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging waste and found 70% was burnt. circularonline.co.uk/news/sainsbury…

Up to 70% of soft plastics given to supermarket recycling schemes end up being incinerated, an investigation has found ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/environment…

Campaigners Everyday Plastic & Environmental Investigation Agency put trackers in the soft plastic collected by supermarket recycling schemes and found that most of it ended up being burned theguardian.com/environment/20…

Well done to Everyday Plastic for exposing the harmful impacts of soft plastics collected for recycling ending up being incinerated, and for setting out the case for real action on plastics (including the call for the UK Government to immediately ban new incineration capacity).

Sign our petition to push Sainsbury's and Tesco to publicly support real action to cut plastic production. It's been a week since the launch of our investigation with Environmental Investigation Agency into supermarket soft plastic recycling schemes. Whilst we've had an amazing response from the public,