EASTER egg packaging which has been left over from all the chocolate scoffing which occurred this weekend can be recycled at an Amblecote supermarket.
Sainsbury’s Amblecote has a specially designed Easter recycling facility, allowing customers to recycle the elements of Easter egg packaging – including plastic, card and paper – until April 12.
The scheme makes it easier to recycle the packaging from eggs, including the rigid plastic which not all local kerbside collections accept.
Paul Crewe, Sainsbury’s head of sustainability, said: “This is the second year we’ve rolled the scheme out in our larger supermarkets and we’ve had a really positive response from our customers and colleagues.
“Recycling is an important part of Sainsbury’s environmental commitment and the Christmas card and Easter egg recycling schemes have been really popular in the past, it’s a great way of reminding our customers to recycle.”
The supermarket’s Christmas card recycling scheme, which last year collected 89.1 tonnes of cards, amounted to a donation of £15,695 to the Forest Stewardship Council, helping support the work they do protecting the world’s forests.
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