Boots follows in Aldi's footsteps and announces product ban in every UK store
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHigh street retailer Boots has followed in the footsteps of supermarket giant Aldi and announced a ban one of its most commonly used items.
It is now calling for other retailers to do the same. Boots says it will be banning all wet wipes that contain plastic, and will instead only be selling biodegradable ones.
The pharmacy chain, which sold more than 800 million wet wipes in the last year, said it would replace plastic-based wipes with plant-based biodegradable alternatives.
The move follows Boots reformulating its own-brand wipe ranges to remove plastic. A large proportion of the 11 billion wet wipes used in the UK every year still contain some form of plastic, according to the Marine Conservation Society, and evidence suggests they are the cause of more than nine in 10 blockages in UK sewers.
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