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The supermarket giant has committed to removing single-use plastic from all its own-brand tea bags by the end of the year. It will switch the oil-based plastic sealing of the tea bags to biodegradable materials - meaning all tea bags will be 100 per cent biodegradable.
It follows a number of trials and comes after a similar move by Sainsbury’s in January. READ MORE: Tesco planning major change with first checkout-free store Bosses added they will remove the outer plastic packaging from its own-brand tea products too, meaning 1.4 billion pieces of single-use plastic
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