Marks & Spencer has ranked last in a league of retailers for the amount of recyclable packaging it uses.
Despite the store’s environmental image and vows to become the UK’s greenest retailer, less than two thirds of M&S packaging can be re-used, research for the Local Government Association found.
The survey looked at how much packaging came with a basket of common foods, according to the report in The Telegraph.
A basket from M&S contained 807g of packaging, of which only 62 per cent could be recycled. A basket from Tesco contained 668g of packaging, 65 per cent of which could be reused, while at Sainsbury’s 70 per cent of 746g was recyclable.
M&S has refuted the evidence, saying 91 per cent of its food packaging can be recycled. The research looked at 29 of its 5,500 products.
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