"Two concerned schoolgirls" with a Palmers Green connection are behind a petition calling on supermarkets to stop packaging fruit and vegetables in single-use plastic.
Stop using plastic packaging in all fruit and vegetables sold in UK supermarkets
Started by Katie Lewis
UK supermarkets must stop packaging fruit and vegetables in single-use plastic, in order to help reduce climate change, and secure the future of our children.
According to Greenpeace UK and the Environmental Investigation Agency, UK supermarkets produced 896,853 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019 - roughly the equivalent of the Eiffel Tower.
This is a disturbing amount of unnecessary waste and a burden on the planet. There seems to be no clear reason why supermarkets continue to choose to package their fruit and vegetables in plastic. Reversing this packaging option, and helping the planet, is simple and easy to remedy.
All supermarkets should stop their use of plastic packaging 
on fruit and vegetables now. Future generations depend on it.
From two concerned school girls.
Sign the petition
On returning from a holiday in France, former Fox Lane resident Katie Lewis and her daughters Isobel, aged 9, and 6-year old Poppy were shocked by the huge amount of plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables sold in UK supermarkets - a big contrast to what they'd seen in French shops, which they noticed used no plastic to wrap fruit and veg.
Katie and the girls decided that, for the sake of the planet, something had to be done about this unnecessary waste. So they approached the headteacher at the girls' school, St Michaels Primary on Brigadier Hill, and she agreed to assist them in their campaign by organising a project on reducing plastic with the aim of cleaning up the oceans and also for the children to write letters to supermarkets.
Katie and her daughters created a paper petition and spent several days after school approaching parents to sign, collecting 200 signatures. Katie, Isobel and Poppy then launched an online version of the petition. They have written a letter to supermarkets and will send it along with the petition.
Stop using plastic packaging in all fruit and vegetables sold in UK supermarkets
Started by Katie Lewis
UK supermarkets must stop packaging fruit and vegetables in single-use plastic, in order to help reduce climate change, and secure the future of our children.
According to Greenpeace UK and the Environmental Investigation Agency, UK supermarkets produced 896,853 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019 - roughly the equivalent of the Eiffel Tower.
This is a disturbing amount of unnecessary waste and a burden on the planet. There seems to be no clear reason why supermarkets continue to choose to package their fruit and vegetables in plastic. Reversing this packaging option, and helping the planet, is simple and easy to remedy.
All supermarkets should stop their use of plastic packaging on fruit and vegetables now. Future generations depend on it.
From two concerned school girls.
Sign the petition
