The smell of freshly baked bread when you walk into a Sainsbury’s is enough to entice anyone into the bakery aisle. Before you know it, you’re leaving armed with croissants and munching on a pretzel. And now, the supermarket has announced a major change to it’s bakery offering, which will impact pastries, doughnuts and baguettes .

In an effort to reduce their plastic waste, all of Sainsbury’s doughnuts and pastries which were previously sold in plastic clam-shell style packaging, are switching to cardboard and paper packaging. Meanwhile, doughnuts are switching to card boxes with a small window, while twin-pack pastries, croissants and cinnamon swirls, are moving to paper bags This will see a 90% plastic reduction in the packaging, reducing plastic packaging by 414 tonnes annually. All bakery bread will also get an eco-friendly makeover, as plastic bags are removed across loaves, baguette and batons.

These have been replaced with recyclable paper bags with a plastic window, saving around 152 tonnes of plastic a year, and a 60% reduction in plastic. More Trending People are going wild for 'phenomenal' Crumbl Cookies — and there's £1.50 UK 'alternative' Map shows Homebase stores closing down to become Sainsbury's The UK's 'best' tea bags are £1.

20 supermarket ones which beat Twinings and PG Tips Tesco shoppers share little-known supermarket trick to nab free products It will also make recycling easier too. The window on the new packaging can be separated from the ca.