Theresa May will urge supermarkets to introduce plastic-free aisles in all supermarkets

THERESA May will today demand that all supermarkets introduce plastic-free aisles.

She will also set a target to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by 2042.

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The PM is to publish the Government’s first 25-year Environment Plan to rebrand the Tories as a green party.

Mrs May warns that the 8.3billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s will more than triple to 34billion tons by 2050 without urgent action. And she will urge superstores to offer customers at least one aisle of items with no packaging.

The PM will re-direct millions in aid cash to help clean up oceans polluted by plastic.

She will also extend the 5p plastic carrier bag charge to all retailers, ending the exemption for small shops.

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Millions will be poured into research to develop less harmful plastic.

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And she will consider calls for a 25p single-use tax on throwaway items such as coffee cups.

In a speech Mrs May will slam plastic as “one of the great environmental scourges of our time”.

She will say: “We will take action at every stage of the production and consumption of plastic.”