Campaigners from Greenpeace staged a protest outside the Camden High Street Marks and Spencer on Saturday to urge the high street giant to crack down on its use of single-use plastic.
%image(15189135, type="article-full", alt="Greenpeace campaigners highlight "unnecessary" plastic packaging at Camden High Street's Marks and Spencer store. Picture: Lisa Thomson")
Activists encouraged shoppers to return to the tills to hand back excess plastic.
Greenpeace UK’s Elena Polisano said: “Major grocery retailers have a huge role to play in cutting the overall amount of throwaway plastic being produced, making sure unnecessary and non-recyclable plastics are off the shelves by 2019, and switching to truly sustainable solutions.”
Camden woman Evelyn Richardson was shopping at the time. She said: “I never really took much notice of excessive packaging on supermarket shelves, but now I have, it is almost impossible to ignore and hard not to become outraged by.”
A Marks and Spencer spokesperson said: “We’re doing everything we can to reduce the amount of plastic we use – designing plastic out, replacing it with planet friendly alternatives and making sure that any we do use can be easily recycled.”
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here