Home Tonight Season 23 Episode 31

How Green is Your Supermarket?

Tonight · Season 23 · Episode 31
With food thought to account for at least 20 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, our grocery basket can have a big impact on our environment. Greenpeace say British supermarkets are producing about 900,000 tons of plastic packaging every year. That means if they go 'green', so do we. Jonathan Maitland examines the Green credentials of Britain's biggest supermarkets, and asks what we can do as consumers to play our part?

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Season
23
Episode
31
Air Date
07/Oct/2021
Air Time
19:30
Runtime
30 min

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With food thought to account for at least 20 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, our grocery basket can have a big impact on our environment. Greenpeace say British supermarkets are producing about 900,000 tons of plastic packaging every year. That means if they go 'green', so do we. Jonathan Maitland examines the Green credentials of Britain's biggest supermarkets, and asks what we can do as consumers to play our part?

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