Supermarket joins backlash against plastic waste

British shoppers can take a trip down memory lane on their local high street, thanks to supermarket giant Morrisons reverting to old-fashioned brown paper bags for loose fresh fruit and vegetables.

The chain, the United Kingdom's fourth-largest, says the change means 150 million fewer plastic bags will be trashed each year. Paper bags will be available in all of its 493 UK stores by the end of the summer.

"We've listened to customers' concerns about using plastic bags for fruit and vegetables and that is why we are bringing back paper bags," Drew Kirk, a produce director at the supermarket, told the Guardian newspaper.