Tesco's plastics purge: what took so long and is it enough?

Campaigners welcome common-sense move but say companies need to be bolderTesco is to remove 67m pieces of plastic from its shelves from March by doing away with the plastic wraps commonplace on multibuy packs of tins. It sounds like a huge amount, but is still only a small proportion of the 1bn pieces of plastic that the chain has pledged to remove this year.Campaigners hailed the move as “simple logic” and “common sense”, asking why retailers had not done this sooner. Pa