It was long struggled for a commitment of the trade to make plastic bags with costs. The grocer Rewe has now gone one step further: The supermarket chain will no longer offer plastic bags future
Germany’s second largest food retailer Rewe stops the sale of plastic bags.. This is intended in Germany annually about 140 million plastic bags less in waste land, as the company announced on Wednesday morning. Only the end of April had approximately 260 retail companies voluntarily after a long struggle obliged to take money for environmentally harmful plastic bags. The supermarket chain is now going one step further.
The commitment to help Germany to implement an EU directive that aims to reduce annual consumption of plastic bags by the end of 2025 to a maximum of 40 bags per inhabitant. The EU intermediate target of 90 plastic bags per person per year for the end of 2019 met Germany already. Currently used every inhabitant of Germany in the year on average 71 bags.
Three-month trial
Rewe wants clients to be in all its supermarkets alternatives of cotton and jute, as well as permanent shopping bags made from recycled materials offering boxes and paper bags. Remaining stocks of plastic bags are sold in the markets but until July, the company said. In the more than 3000 Rewe markets weekly buy about 27 million customers.
In a three-month test phase, the company had tried to renounce the plastic bags in more than 130 markets. A majority of consumers favor and accept the step, the retail giant summed up his experience. Nearly two-thirds of the surveyed customers wanted access to reusable tote bags or shopping boxes. Not affected by the plastic bag ban are, according to a Rewe spokesman provisionally the free transparent plastic bags, which are to be had in the fruit and vegetable counters, it will but look for alternatives.
criticism of commitment
Further details will Rewe at a press conference with Federal environment Minister Barbara Hendricks and Naturschutzbund Germany (NABU) in the morning in Berlin known.
environmental groups had the commitment of trading last criticized and Hendricks accused before the to be buckled companies. The German Environmental Aid complained that 60 percent of the bags, which are covered by the agreement, most are already charged. The Nabu called for a legal framework that also includes paper bags. These were in the manufacturing process more environmentally friendly than plastic bags
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