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Plastic Food Packaging Waste
This POST note outlines the main options for reducing packaging waste (removing, reusing, replacing and recycling plastics) and examines the potential to combine them into a coordinated waste strategy.
Plastic packaging is widely used in the food sector but plastic waste in the environment is a growing consumer concern. This POSTnote outlines the main options for reducing packaging waste (removing, reusing, replacing and recycling plastics) and examines the potential to combine them into a coordinated waste strategy.
Acknowledgements
POSTnotes are based on literature reviews and interviews with a range of stakeholders and are externally peer reviewed. POST would like to thank interviewees and peer reviewers for kindly giving up their time during the preparation of this briefing, including:
- James Winpenny, Linda Crichton and Robert Vaughan DEFRA*
- Sanjay Patel and David Harding Brown, The Packaging Collective*
- Carole Taylor, The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC)*
- Andy Rees, Welsh Government
- David Newman, Bio-based and biodegradable industries association (BBIA)*
- Lucy Frankel, Vegware*
- Professor Margaret Bates, University of Northampton*
- Professor Helen Hailes, University College London*
- Professor John Ward, University College London*
- Dr Teresa Domenech, University College London*
- Dr Sally Beken, Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
- Richard Kirkman and Nadiya Catel-Arutyunova, Veolia*
- Dr Adam Reed, SUEZ*
- Erik Lindroth, Tetra Pak*
- Helen Munday and David Bellamy, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)*
- Sian Sunderland and Frankie Gillard, A Plastic Planet*
- Patrick Mahon, WRAP
- Liz Goodwin, World Resources Institute (WRI)*
- Professor Michael Norton, European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)*
- Professor Andrew Dove, University of Birmingham*
- Stuart Lendrum, Iceland
- Julieta Cuneo and Jacob Ainscough, Policy Connect*
- Hans van Bochove and Nick Brown, Coca-Cola European Partners*
- Dr Deborah Beck, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures*
- Dr Thomas Webb, University of Sheffield*
- Dr Rukayya Muazu, University of Sheffield*
- Dr Sarah Greenwood, University of Sheffield*
- Benjamin Punchard, Mintel
- Rob Thompson and Ian Ferguson, The Co-op
- Martin Kersh, Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA)
- Mark Shaw, Parkside Flexibles*
- Kate Avgarska, Thorntons Budgens*
- Tom Pell, The Clean Kilo*
- Neil Whittal and Adrian Pratt, The Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group (PCRRG)
- Anthony Wilson, Food Standards Agency (FSA)
- Abigail Green, Anthony Avella and Glenn Fleetwood, UK Parliament Environment Team
- Richard Burnett, James Cropper
- Cecile Hourse, Terracycle*
- Dr Alvin Orbaek White, Swansea University*
- Adrian Haworth and Bronwen Jameson, Recycling Technologies*
- Jacob Hayler, Environmental Services Association (ESA)*
- Ian Jamie, Staeger Packaging*
- Adam Robinson and Will Mercer, Coveris*
- Andrew Sweetman, Futamura (UK)
Original article link: https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0605
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