Boots are banning all wipes with plastic by the end of this year to help tackle climate change.
The pharmacy chain, which sold more than 800 million wet wipes in the last year, said it would replace plastic-based wipes with plant-based biodegradable alternatives following a reformulating of its own-brand wipe ranges to remove plastic.
Boots is said to be one of the UK’s bigger sellers of wet wipes with more than 140 different lines stocked across their skincare, baby, tissue and health care categories.
Sadly, according to the Marine Conservation Society, a large proportion of the 11 billion wet wipes used in the UK every year still contain some form of plastic and evidence suggests they are the cause of more than nine in 10 blockages in UK sewers.
