This infoclip illustrates the use of plastic bags by food industry and supermarkets. Various shots of products displayed in the supermarket, fruits and vegetables in plastic bags and plastic carrier bags used by consumers. Outside views with plastic bags thrown away in the nature.

Brussels

supermarket

pollution

plastic waste (T)

environmental protection (T)

food industry

vegetable

fruit

packaging

plastics

reduction of the environmental impact of plastics (T)

2019 European elections (T)

Infoclip: Reducing use of plastic bags

Customers in a supermarket using thinner plastic bags to buy fruits and vegetables (3 shots).

Lightweight plastic bag thinner than 50 microns, example of the vast majority of plastic carrier bags used in the EU.

Filling the thinner plastic bag with fruits and vegetables (3 shots).

People paying in the supermarket, products get packed in differents types of plastic carrier bags (4 shots).

Customers leaving the supermarket (2 shots).

Used plastic bags became trash in the street, Brussels (4 shots).

Plastic bags in the nature, Brussels (9 shots).