{"id":134681,"date":"2024-10-17T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/over-half-of-uk-food-and-drink-products-wrapped-in-unnecessary-plastic\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T05:00:47","slug":"over-half-of-uk-food-and-drink-products-wrapped-in-unnecessary-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/over-half-of-uk-food-and-drink-products-wrapped-in-unnecessary-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Over half of UK food and drink products wrapped in unnecessary plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134681\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>New research by DS Smith looking at 1500 grocery items across European food retailers finds that the UK is the country most reliant on plastic packaging. The Material Change Index from sustainable packaging company DS Smith has revealed that 51 per cent of food and drink products in UK supermarkets are wrapped in unnecessary plastic, contributing to 29.8 billion avoidable pieces of plastic packaging annually.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted with Retail Economics, assessed 1,500 grocery items across five top European food retailers in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, and the UK. It found that the UK is the most reliant on plastic packaging, with 70 per cent of all food and drink products containing plastic, compared to 67 per cent in Spain, 66 per cent in Italy and Germany, 62 per cent in Poland, and 59 per cent in France.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis looked at two scenarios to create an overall plastic packaging index: the proportion of commonly purchased items in a typical grocery shopping basket that contain plastic packaging and packaging in the overall inventory in each store. Processed foods emerged as the primary source of plastic waste, with 90 per cent of ready-meals and meal kits, 89 per cent of bread, rice and cereals, 83 per cent of dairy products, and 80 per cent of meat and fish being packaged in plastic. DS Smith estimates that 84 per cent of unnecessary plastic used in the UK could be replaced or significantly reduced by fibre-based alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resource.co\/article\/over-half-uk-food-and-drink-products-wrapped-unnecessary-plastic\">Resource<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-611\/\">Over half of UK food and drink products wrapped in unnecessary plastic<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[602,575,815,829,579],"class_list":["post-134681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-drink","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-food","tag-packaging","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}