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Radio 4,5 mins

Is the supermarket you're shopping in greenwashing?

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Melanie Abbott at You & Yours follows up on complaints that the supermarket chain Sainsbury's is "greenwashing" after products in a new range of sustainable bedding were found wrapped in a single-use plastic bag with instructions to remove the packaging before putting them on display. Sainsbury's website says the linen is "presented in a fabric bag, made from the same material, and fastened with a coconut husk button and jute string, designed to eliminate single use plastic packaging”. We hear from an unhappy listener and Christina Dixon from the Environmental Investigation Agency, a charity which campaigns against plastic pollution. First broadcast on You & Yours, 2 March 2020.

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