Sainsbury’s has made changes to several of its in-store bakery products, an increasing trend in the UK.

All doughnuts and pastries previously in plastic clam-shell style packaging are switching to cardboard and paper packaging – a 90% plastic reduction.

Doughnuts are switching to card boxes with a small window and twin-pack pastries, as well as croissants and cinnamon swirls, are moving to paper bags.

In-store bakery bread will see up to a 60% reduction in plastic through the removal of full plastic bags across loaves, baguettes and batons.

These have been replaced with recyclable paper bags with a plastic window, saving around 152 tonnes of plastic a year.

The retailer said the window on the new packaging can be easily separated from the card box and paper bag and recycled at any front-of-store recycling points at Sainsbury’s supermarkets.

The card and paper can be recycled at home in kerbside recycling.

Source- Packaging News, 2024

30th September 2024.