Sainsbury's Mike Coupe on Packaging Waste

This is an interesting piece giving a giant retailer's perspective on the packaging waste conundrum. Coupe points out that Sainsbury sells some 250M items per week and has supply chains embedded across at least 60 countries. Many suppliers have invested significantly in packaging systems that cannot be altered on a whim. He also castigates successive governments for policy failures leaving us with a patchwork of waste management schemes because local authorities have different approaches. This is just one more stupidity associated with the laisser faire approach that has been the norm from Westminster.