Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has lied yet again, publishing misleading figures to give the impression that it had met an industry target to halve the use of plastic bags. The Tesco Empire of Evil claims to be one of the greenest retailers but they missed the target and actively tried to conceal the fact.
Most plastic bags end up in landfill sites where can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Supermarkets issue more than 4,700 tonnes of plastic bags every single month and most are used only once.
Seven supermarket chains - Empire of Evil, Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Somerfield and Waitrose - signed an agreement committing them to cut the number of bags by 50 per cent over the three years to May 2009. This month they reported, via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the independent waste watchdog, that they had not met the target. But collectively, they achieved a 48 per cent reduction from 870 million bags in May 2006 to 450 million in May 2009, which is not a bad effort.
However, the six excluding Tesco had more than accomplished their goal because it turns out that the Empire's reduction had been significantly less than 50 per cent despite the fact that they issued a statement on their website on the same day saying “Our customers are now using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before.” A blatant lie that Tesco had to admit when questioned, revealing that its figure had been adjusted to account for growth in sales and did not reflect the chain’s actual performance.
A senior source at Tesco said that "the company was concerned about negative publicity if it were to reveal the real number" so it would not be publishing the actual number of bags used and would not be revealing by how much that number had declined.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
Most plastic bags end up in landfill sites where can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Supermarkets issue more than 4,700 tonnes of plastic bags every single month and most are used only once.
Seven supermarket chains - Empire of Evil, Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Somerfield and Waitrose - signed an agreement committing them to cut the number of bags by 50 per cent over the three years to May 2009. This month they reported, via the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), the independent waste watchdog, that they had not met the target. But collectively, they achieved a 48 per cent reduction from 870 million bags in May 2006 to 450 million in May 2009, which is not a bad effort.However, the six excluding Tesco had more than accomplished their goal because it turns out that the Empire's reduction had been significantly less than 50 per cent despite the fact that they issued a statement on their website on the same day saying “Our customers are now using more than 50 per cent fewer carrier bags than they did before.” A blatant lie that Tesco had to admit when questioned, revealing that its figure had been adjusted to account for growth in sales and did not reflect the chain’s actual performance.
A senior source at Tesco said that "the company was concerned about negative publicity if it were to reveal the real number" so it would not be publishing the actual number of bags used and would not be revealing by how much that number had declined.
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
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