A MAN has been returning his non-recyclable plastic to the Waitrose store in Henley for two years to try to persuade the company to stop using it.
When Tom Fort goes to do his weekly shop he takes a large bag of plastic to encourage the supermarket chain to improve what he calls its “lamentable performance” on non-recyclable packaging.
The former BBC journalist, of Wood Lane, Sonning Common, has been shopping at the supermarket off Bell Street for about 20 years but believes Waitrose’s attitude towards packaging is “behind the times”.
He said: “They should be leading the way, not being dragged kicking and screaming into a more responsible attitude.
“Everybody knows non-recyclable packaging is bad but no one wants to do anything about it, so I started to return it to the store about two years ago.
“At the time a Waitrose spokesperson came out with the predictable guff about how much progress they’d made, how they were working day and night to tackle the issue, how they were striving to meet targets for reducing use of non-recyclable plastics etc….
