"If the buyer knows what kind of package he will have to pay, he will take exactly the amount of packaging, which he really needed, if you offer free packets, that the client has the opportunity to take any amount of packages even if they are not necessary", — said the retailer.

The company added that it is only about hypermarkets. In supermarkets and stores format "at home" free packing was not originally.

Earlier in hypermarkets "Auchan" in addition to paid ekopaket and bags reusable customers were offered a free package at the box office.

In October, the special representative of the President of Russia on environmental issues, ecology and transport Sergei Ivanov proposed to introduce in Russia the environmental fee on plastic bags and support the production of paper. In turn, the Minister of natural resources Sergey Donskoy said that the environmental fee on plastic bags could be introduced in Russia in 2018-2020.

Auchan (Auchan) is one of the largest retailers in the world, founded in 1961 in France. The chain comprises more than 1.7 thousands of super - and hypermarkets in 15 countries. In Russia the company works since 2002.