A Plastic Planet says new vac packs do not go in most household recycling but Sainsbury's says they can be taken to stores.
, saving 450 tonnes of plastic each year". It is part of its goal to halve its use of plastic packaging of own brand products by 2025.
"The old, rigid plastic packaging would at least have gone into recycling, however limited the UK's systems are," she added. "The new vacuum packs will instead be thrown into general waste and end up in incineration."Sainsbury's head of fresh food, Richard Crampton, told the BBC the UK was behind Europe and the rest of the world on its use and recyclability of flexible plastics. "So it's true you can't pick it up at the kerb yet," he said.
Environmental campaign group Wrap said plastic bags and wrapping could be recycled at more than 6,000 places across the UK.Some shoppers had posted their dislike of the vac packed mince on social media, and reviews on the Sainsbury's website.Mr Crampton said: "It's exactly the same mince... but more compressed... so we do need customers to cook it slightly differently.
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