“I’ve stopped pretending that climate change crisis doesn’t affect me – and you should, too”
This week, Boots has become the first national pharmacy, health and beauty retailer in the UK to move to unbleached paper carrier bags as standard. It will also be the first national pharmacy chain to move to unbleached paper dispensing bags. The paper bags will replace plastic bags in 53 Boots stores across the UK, with a full roll-out to all 2,485 stores completed by early 2020. This aims to remove over 900 tonnes of plastic from Boots store operations each year. It comes after recent research of 6,000 Boots customers showed how important this issue is to customers. It reported that 92% of Boots customers are concerned about the number of plastic bags used in the UK and 94% agree that it is a good idea to move to paper bags.
Customers can purchase a small, medium or large paper carrier bag for 5p, 7p, or 10p. All profits will be donated to Boots long-term charity partner BBC Children in Need to support disadvantaged children across the UK.Seb James, Managing Director, Boots UK, said: “Plastic waste is undoubtedly one of the most important issues around the world today with TV shows like Blue Planet highlighting the effects of plastic pollution.
Let’s hope that the high-street continues to take concrete action like this to help solve the climate crisis.
BootsUK BootsUK the link claims this is ‘helping to tackle the climate crisis’ but paper bags actually require more energy to produce and have less re-use potential - can you explain?