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The United Kingdom’s biggest retailer, Tesco, has pledged to remove one billion pieces of plastic packaging from products in its UK stores by the end of 2020, seeking to reduce its environmental footprint and meet growing consumer demand for less waste.

Britons have become increasingly aware of the amount of plastic they use following scientist David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II documentary, which highlighted the dangers of plastic pollution to marine life.

Last year, Tesco said it wanted to remove hard-to-recycle materials from its business. It said on Friday it will have eliminated the hardest-to-recycle materials from its own-brand products by