A SUPERMARKET in Ulverston is the first in the UK to trial the chain’s first packaging-free products.

Aldi has launched the trial at its Ulverston store.

Four household staples – basmati rice, brown rice, penne pasta and wholewheat fusilli – will now be available to buy loose in store.

The move could remove more than 130 tonnes of plastic – or more than 21 million pieces – from circulation annually from stores.

The products are available by weight, and Aldi will provide customers with free paper bags that are fully recyclable and made of FSC-certified material.

This is what our readers had to say:

Sarah Churchill posted: “Used this in Ulverston the other day and it was great, recyclable paper bag to fill up with as much as you need, plus the pasta was cheaper per kilo than the pre-packaged stuff.”

Grant Huck said: “I feel for the packaging-free shop in town, but I did say that this development would never be good for the town centre.”

Gary Smith said: “Be great shopping in the future: you’ll take a trolley full of empty containers and fill them at automatic silos and then check yourself out, the human-less experience will be fantastic and much more profitable for the supermarkets who put all the local businesses doing this out of business.”

Dan Martin said: “Lots of people handling the same equipment during a pandemic?”

Gill McPhillips said: “People will lose jobs!”