Fianna Fáil Senator Fiona O’Loughlin is calling for a ban on plastic wrap on groceries in supermarkets.
Senator O’Loughlin commented, “We need to follow France's lead in banning plastic wrapping. We have been warned repeatedly that our seas will have more plastic than fish by 2050 if we do not change our ways.
“Only 14% of plastic waste is recyclable, so we need to look at what we can do to change our consumption of plastic and decrease food waste. A UK charity, WRAP, or the Waste and Resources Action Programme, spent 18 months researching the difference between people buying loose products and people buying wrapped products. It concluded that selling produce loose, without wrapping, led to 14 million baskets of food not being wasted.
“We need to go that way and get rid of the unnecessary plastic wrapping on our produce.”
