We put Iceland’s new ‘plastic free’ fakeaway range to the test (and they cost just £1.50 per dish)
Can they heat up the food the same? Are they flimsy to hold? Will they go soggy in the microwave? We tried them out...
ICELAND'S new shareable street food takeaway meals only cost £1.50 a dish - and they're more environmentally friendly too.
The range is one of the first supermarket own brands to be packaged in paper based pots rather than plastic food trays.
Most ready meal trays are unrecyclable because they're made from black plastic, which can't be detected by sorting machines.
But these trays by Iceland mean that all of the packaging, except for the plastic film lid, can be recycled.
It comes as the supermarket works to live up to its promise of eradicating plastic packages from its own brand range by 2023.
Whilst the card tubs sound like a great idea, we weren't convinced that they'd be as good as the plastic ones when it came to actually cooking it.
There are a handful of vegetarian dishes too including Root Ruby which is a beetroot-based dish.
Iceland boss Richard Walker has been outspoken about the company's pledge to stop using plastic by 2023.
He said: "It’s actually easier for Iceland to take action than it is for most companies because we are a privately owned, family business.
"Plastic-free aisles in supermarkets aren’t a bad idea, but they’re not enough."
It is the first major retailer globally to go "plastic-free" and the announcement came days after PM Theresa May pledged to eliminate synthetic packaging altogether.
The move has been welcomed by environmental campaigners concerned about plastic in the world's oceans, where it can harm and kill wildlife.
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