In May 2008, the Local Government Association published its second investigation into the weight of retailer packaging. It finds that most major retailers have cut the amount of packaging they use but the proportion that is recyclable has changed very little.
In the first survey, carried out in October last year, up to 40% of packaging in a regular household shopping basket could not be recycled. The most recent survey showed that that figure has fallen by just 2%. The average weight of packaging has dropped by 5%. The survey also finds that supermarkets still produce more packaging than smaller shops and markets and less of it can be recycled. To read the press release and download the survey see here.
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