Woolworths has announced that an additional 120 stores are now single-use plastic shopping bag free, increasing their single use plastic shopping bag free stores to 145 nationally.

Retailer Woolworths has sent notice that 121 of its stores around South Africa will be going plastic-bag free from 9 November 2020.

Pick n Pay announced today (20/10/2020) that it had concluded an agreement to purchase on-demand, online grocery service Bottles. This will enable Pick n Pay to build on the success it has achieved in partnership with Bottles in recent months, and further strengthens what is already sub-Saharan Africa’s largest and most popular online grocery business.

Pick n Pay has recruited 20 of its largest food and manufacturer suppliers to join the 10x20x30 initiative to significantly combat in-store and supply chain food waste by 2030. Pick n Pay has set its own internal target to reduce food waste by 50% by 2025.

Woolworths has announced that 25 stores including some of its largest full line stores and 3 food markets are now single-use plastic shopping bag free.

Johnnie Walker is introducing a 100% plastic-free bottle made of paper starting next year.

As part of its ZERO packaging waste to landfill commitment, Woolworths set ambitious targets of phasing out single-use plastic bags by the end of 2020 as well as for all its packaging to be reusable or recyclable by 2022.

Unilever NV is releasing a new set of climate goals that make it the most ambitious of any consumer goods company tackling carbon emissions.

South Africa’s love-hate relationship with single-use plastic has come under the spotlight in a new study highlighting the environmental, social and economic impacts of carrier bags.