Shelves of shame: are these the worst recycling offenders in supermarkets?

A quick tour of the big stores shows they could do much more to cut out plastic

Craig Curtis, the new president of the Recycling Association, is staring with exasperation at the aisle full of salad leaves. He presses a bag of rocket.

"Do you hear that?" he says, as the plastic crackles. "That's laminated. One sort of plastic on the outside, and a totally different sort on the other." He shakes his head at the supermarket display. "You can't recycle it. It just goes into waste. If these things were made from one polymer, we could recycle all of it."

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