Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society. Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious ...

Today the Council has reached an agreement ('general approach') on a proposal for a regulation on packaging and packaging waste. The aim is to tackle the increase in packaging waste generated in the ...

Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about 28% of U.S.

This press release was updated on 15 March 2024 to add the provisional agreement text. Today, the Council presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached a provisional political ...

Plastic packaging waste is everywhere. Our plastic bottles, food wrappings, and grocery bags litter the landscape and pollute the global environment. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area twice the ...