Dried beans and lentils instead of canned
Cans have a thin plastic lining. Dried beans, chickpeas and lentils avoid it, and cooked from dry they cost about 40% less per serving.
Rigid packaging
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Heat ready meals on a plate, not in the black tray
Many ready meals, including some sold as healthy or high-protein, come in black plastic trays. Tip the food onto a plate or into a…
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Canada Federal Plastics Registry (reporting under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act)
Companies that put 1,000 kg or more a year of plastic packaging, electrical goods or single-use plastic products on the Canadian market must report…
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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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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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Italy plastic tax on single-use plastic items (MACSI)
Italy’s EUR 450 per tonne tax on single-use manufactured plastic items has been postponed repeatedly and is now due on 1 January 2027.
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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.