BOOTHS grocery chain has launched an initiative encouraging customers to bring their own reusable containers to purchase fresh meat and fish from their counters.

Booths Brand and Innovations Manager, Matt Bruno said: “We’re constantly striving to become a more environmentally friendly retailer.

“Enabling our customers to bring their own clean, lidded containers to purchase fresh meat and fish from our counters is a natural progression towards becoming more sustainable.’’

Booths is proactive in phasing out single-use plastic and have completely removed plastic cutlery for their takeaway counter products and inside Booths branded pre-packaged food to go options. This move will prevent 500,000 pieces of plastic cutlery being used within Booths each year.

Further initiatives include changing pre-packed options to include less plastic waste and reusable cotton bags for loose produce.