This week, Boots has become the first national pharmacy, health and beauty retailer in the UK to move to unbleached (brown) paper carrier bags as standard. It will also be the first national pharmacy chain to move to unbleached paper dispensing bags.

The paper bags will replace plastic bags in 53 Boots stores across the UK, with a full roll-out to all 2,485 stores completed by early 2020. This aims to remove over 900 tonnes of plastic from Boots store operations each year. It comes after recent research of 6,000 Boots customers showed how important this issue is to customers. It reported that 92% of Boots customers are concerned about the number of plastic bags used in the UK and 94% agree that it is a good idea to move to paper bags.

Boots just did a high-street first to help tackle the climate change crisis