Netherlands Supermarket Ekoplaza Has Launched a World-First Plastic-Free Aisle
The aisle offers shoppers over 700 plastic-free items.
Australian businesses have begun to slowly phase out plastic, with venues across the country banning plastic straws and five states and territories banning single-use plastic bags. But Dutch supermarket chain Ekoplaza has taken it up a notch — it has launched a supermarket with an aisle that is completely plastic free.
On Wednesday, February 28, an Amsterdam branch of the chain opened its doors with the world-first aisle, made up from over 700 plastic-free items. The supermarket worked together with environmental campaign A Plastic Planet to launch the new aisle. Co-founder of the organisation Sian Sutherland Tweeted that 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced since the 1950s and encouraged other supermarket chains to follow suit.
Ekoplaza won't stop at one aisle, either — it plans to roll out plastic-free aisles across 74 stores by the end of 2018.
Australia currently has no plastic-free supermarket aisles — stores like Naked Foods utilise minimal plastic and Harris Farm recently went plastic-bag free — but maybe our supermarkets (hi, Woolies and Coles) should take note.
Source: The Guardian
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