Quebec expanded deposit return for drink containers
Quebec added a 10 cent deposit to all drink cans in November 2023 and all plastic drink bottles in March 2025; glass wine and…
Bottles and drinks
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EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (2025/40)
Binding EU rules requiring all packaging to be recyclable by 2030, with bans on single-use plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables, for eating…
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Chile plastic bag ban and single-use plastics law
Chile banned plastic shopping bags in large retail from February 2019 and all commerce from August 2020, and its 2021 single-use plastics law completed…
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Rwanda plastic bag and single-use plastics ban
Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008 and replaced that law with a wider single-use plastics ban in force from 23 September 2019, enforced with…
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California SB 54 Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act
California’s 2022 law requires all single-use packaging to be recyclable or compostable by 2032, a 25 percent cut in plastic packaging and producer-funded extended…
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US state packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws (seven states)
Maine, Oregon, Colorado, California, Minnesota, Maryland and Washington have adopted laws making producers pay for managing their packaging waste (extended producer responsibility, EPR); Oregon’s…
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Australian Packaging Covenant and Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands (ANZPAC) Plastics Pact
Australia’s packaging scheme, where government sets the rules and industry runs it, and the ANZPAC Plastics Pact set 2025 targets for reusable, recyclable or…
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EU own-resource levy on non-recycled plastic packaging waste
Since 2021 each EU member state pays EUR 0.80 per kilogram of non-recycled plastic packaging waste into the EU budget, passed on through national…
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Spain tax on non-reusable plastic packaging
Spain charges EUR 0.45 per kilogram of non-recycled plastic in non-reusable packaging, in force since 1 January 2023.
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UK Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers
A refundable deposit on PET, aluminium and steel drinks containers from 150 ml to 3 litres, launching across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland on…