Tu Clothing saves 103 tonnes of plastic with new cardboard babywear hangers

Sainsbury’s has introduced new cardboard hangers across its Tu Clothing Babywear range, replacing five million plastic hangers and saving approximately 103 tonnes of plastic.

The swap, a UK supermarket first, follows a successful trial and will be available in over 400 stores.

The move allows customers to recycle the cardboard hangers at home, in turn helping them to reduce their environmental impact too.

To encourage a circular economy for packaging, Sainsbury’s also offers an in-store recycling service for Tu Clothing plastic hangers.

When checking out in store, customers and colleagues can leave behind their plastic hangers, which will then be returned for recycling.

Between January and July this year, the company returned 12 million hangers from checkouts, equivalent to 85 tonnes of plastic.

It has also made a series of changes to other packaging in recent months, including being the first UK retailer to switch its laundry detergent packaging from plastic to cardboard.