{"id":7808,"date":"2018-01-16T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainableagriculturewaitrose.org\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:06:02","slug":"iceland-supermarket-chain-aims-to-be-plastic-free-by-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/2018\/01\/16\/iceland-supermarket-chain-aims-to-be-plastic-free-by-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland supermarket chain aims to be plastic free by 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7810\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99603464_mediaitem99603463.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99603464_mediaitem99603463.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/files\/2018\/01\/99603464_mediaitem99603463.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Supermarket chain Iceland has said it will eliminate or drastically reduce plastic packaging of all its own-label products by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland says the move will affect more than a thousand own-label products.<\/p>\n<p>New ranges will be packaged using a paper-based tray, rather than plastic.<\/p>\n<p>It follows recent outcries over the packaging of cauliflower &#8220;steaks&#8221; and coconuts, and Sir David Attenborough&#8217;s Blue Planet programme, which showed vivid images of plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-42692642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Supermarket chain Iceland has said it will eliminate or drastically reduce plastic packaging of all its own-label products by the end of 2023. Iceland says the move will affect more than a thousand own-label products. New ranges will be packaged using a paper-based tray, rather than plastic. It follows recent outcries over the packaging of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[456,572,901,911,1108,1114],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-clippings","tag-food-packaging","tag-iceland","tag-plastic","tag-pollution","tag-supermarket","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}