Morrisons to remove plastic packaging from bananas

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Morrisons to remove millions of single use plastics each year with new paper band on bananas | Credit:Morrisons
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Morrisons to remove millions of single use plastics each year with new paper band on bananas | Credit:Morrisons

New paper band will see 45 million single-use plastic bags removed from stores each year

Morrisons has announced it will replace the plastic packaging from its bananas with paper bands, in a move that makes it the first supermarket to remove plastic banana packaging from all its stores...

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