Clean sweep: Tesco to ban sale of wet wipes containing plastic

Michael Holder
clock • 2 min read
Wet wipes can cause sewer blockages if flushed down the toilet | Credit: iStock
Image:

Wet wipes can cause sewer blockages if flushed down the toilet | Credit: iStock

No wet wipes, pet wipes, cleaning wipes or tissues sold in Tesco stores will contain plastic by the end of 2022, the firm has said

Tesco is to stop selling baby wipes containing plastic across its stores nationwide from later this month, as part of the supermarket giant's wider crackdown on plastic waste across its business and supply...

To continue reading this article...

Join BusinessGreen

In just a few clicks you can start your free BusinessGreen Lite membership for 12 months, providing you access to:

  • Three complimentary articles per month covering the latest real-time news, analysis, and opinion from Europe’s leading source of information on the Green economy and business
  • Receive important and breaking news stories via our daily news alert
  • Our weekly newsletter with the best of the week’s green business news and analysis

Join now

 

Already a BusinessGreen member?

Login

More on Waste

'Smell the sole': Stella McCartney launches trainers made using cinnamon waste

'Smell the sole': Stella McCartney launches trainers made using cinnamon waste

Luxury fashion brand's latest trainers feature plant-based soles developed by Balena Science

Stuart Stone
clock 27 June 2025 • 2 min read
Iceland and Olio extend food waste programme, after saving seven million meals

Iceland and Olio extend food waste programme, after saving seven million meals

Supermarket to extend partnership with money saving app Olio to offer customers £2 mystery food bundles

clock 27 June 2025 • 2 min read
City Harvest secures funding to rescue farm food waste

City Harvest secures funding to rescue farm food waste

Twelve charities awarded slice of £13.6m in Defra funding to redistribute an estimated 19,000 tonnes of farm surplus to those facing food poverty

Stuart Stone
clock 10 June 2025 • 4 min read