Tesco switches pocket tissue packaging to paper to cut plastic waste

Forest Stewardship Council-certified packs will eliminate almost 35 tonnes of soft plastic waste a year

Tesco is scrapping plastic packaging from its own-brand pocket tissues, in a move that the UK's largest supermarket says will eliminate almost 35 tonnes of new soft plastic waste each year.

It is the first big supermarket to make the change, which will result in the individual packaging and the wrapping around multipacks of Tesco tissues in its gentle white and balm ranges being replaced with Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper packs.