ASDA has this week launched its first sustainable store in Middleton, Leeds, complete with refill stations for rice and pasta and machines dispensing Persil and Radox – not to mention chutes for Coco Pops. ASDA hopes the store will encourage people to reduce, reuse and recycle – saving an estimated one million pieces of plastic from being used each year.
If successful, they could be rolled out nationwide, so expect to be pocket-tapping in a plastic-free supermarket very soon. Now, how do we get a cereal chute for our own home…