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 ...

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 ...