Members of the Fort William branch of Greenpeace outside the town’s Tesco store on Saturday.
Photograph: Iain Ferguson, alba.photos.
Members of the Fort William branch of Greenpeace were out on the town’s High Street on Saturday to target supermarket plastics, writes Mark Entwistle.
Branch members encouraged shoppers to hand over their unwanted single-use plastic packaging to send a clear message that consumers do not want things wrapped up in plastic that will take thousands of years to break up, and may well end up in oceans posing a huge risk to wildlife. ‘We had a good chat to the manager of Tesco who said people opt for plastic wrapped over loose’, said a Greenpeace branch spokesperson. ‘Then I pointed out that it’s usually a lot cheaper to do that, which is probably why.