{"id":2385,"date":"2019-10-31T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/the-sun-removes-plastic-polybagging\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:47:18","slug":"the-sun-removes-plastic-polybagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/the-sun-removes-plastic-polybagging\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Removes Plastic Polybagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun TV Mag removed its inner plastic polybagging across the UK and Irish editions, removing 350 tonnes of single-use plastic per year from the Saturday issue.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile The Sun on Sunday is also phasing out single-use plastic by the end of December which will be replaced by compostable film when bagging is necessary for the title from January.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows The Times and The Sunday Times removing all single-use plastic outer polybagging in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday and Sunday Times inner magazine polybagging will start to be replaced by paper-banding in early 2020, which when complete, will finalise News UK&rsquo;s plastics pledge to remove all single-use plastic used to wrap its titles and inner magazines by mid 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers will be paid the existing insert rate.<\/p>\n<p>News UK retail director Neil Spencer said: &ldquo;This latest plastics move means News UK is now well on the way to removing 800 tonnes of plastic from the supply chain by 2020. 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