Morrisons to offer paper carrier bags

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Morrisons to offer paper carrier bags

Supermarket chain Morrisons is is to offer paper carrier bags to all customers as part of its continuing drive to remove unnecessary plastic from its stores.

Welsh stores will be the first to offer the paper carrier bags this month. They will then roll-out to Morrisons’ English and Scottish stores in May.

The paper bags have been trialled in eight Morrisons stores since January.

The paper bags are made in Wales from paper from sustainably managed forests and are strong enough to carry heavy weights up to 16kg, the store maintains. They will be priced at 20p, which will be the same price as Morrisons standard plastic carrier bag.

The paper grocery bags, which can be reused and ultimately recycled, are labelled ‘Reusable Paper Bag’.

Andy Atkinson, Group Customer and Marketing Director, at Morrisons said: “We are taking another meaningful step that will remove an estimated 1,300 tonnes of plastic out of the environment each year.

“Our customers have told us that reducing plastic is their number one environmental concern so introducing the paper bag across the nation will provide another way of reducing the plastic in their lives.”

Morrisons has also assessed the bag’s carbon footprint and says it is equivalent to the standard plastic carrier bag.