'UK first': Sainsbury's to dish up fish and chicken in recyclable card trays

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Changes expected to slash the food retailer's plastic packaging by almost 700 tonnes a year

Sainsbury's has served up a flurry of changes to its own-brand fish and chicken packaging in the UK, in a move it expects to save almost 700 tonnes of plastic a year. Announced today, the "UK retailer...

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