Cartons or cardboard to be replaced with recycled plastic will save over a million eggs per year after successful pilot results from retailer largest UK eggs.

Tesco currently storing eggs in the carton just one egg broken in transit, it will immediately seep through cardboard boxes and other containers influence.

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But now, supermarkets are testing a type of packaging made from recycled beverage bottles, old. When the egg is broken, it only affects container damaged fruits only.

Over eight weeks, Tesco packaging tested 12 new egg event for nearly 200 stores in the region of Scotland and Belfastarea Livingston in Northern Ireland.

Retailer Tesco is the UK's largest egg, annually provides about 1.3 billion eggs for the consumer market.

Tesco spokesman, Lee Gray said: "We found that plastic containers capable of minimizing waste actually existing phẩm-, the company has containers help to reduce the amount of food waste and supply for consumer packaging solutions using more environmentally friendly.

"If fully used containers for the transportation and storage of eggs, on average per year will save about 1 million results. Test results are very encouraging and we hope this model will soon be replicated by the end of this year. "He added.