Packaging

Personal care products contribute some of the largest amounts of waste that end up in landfills.

Producers will pay the full cost of disposal and recycling of packaging, recycling collections will be made consistent and a deposit return scheme for drinks containers will be introduced.

Timber and plant-based packaging from recycled, certified and responsibly managed forests can replace plastic packaging.

Consumers are exasperated with manufacturers that do not make any effort to reduce their packaging.

Madeleine Cuff challenged herself to spend a week reducing her food and packaging waste. Did it work, and will other consumers and supermarkets take note?

A behind-the-scenes look at the British supermodel's shoot for SodaStream's 'World Without Bottles' campaign

UK consumers get through 14 million litres of bottled soft drinks every year at a significant cost to the environment. So why not try making your own?

As UK supermarkets scramble to reduce packaging in the face of growing legislation and consumer demand, Aimee Steen talks exclusively to those tackling the problem at high street stores and asks what role customers have to play

PHOTO GALLERY: In exclusive images from a brilliant new eco-design book we illustrate innovative ways designers around the world are creating sustainable food packaging, products and appliances...

Is it healthy? Is it organic? Is it fairly traded? How far has it travelled? At times, making informed choices can feel like a full-time job. Here is a pocket guide to buying food from the new book Stuffed

They're becoming more and more common - wrapped around everything from milk to chickpeas. But just how environmentally friendly are composite cartons compared to the good, old-fashioned tin or jar?

Little angers environmentalists more than receiving food or products in Styrofoam packaging, and now the Californian Ocean Protection Council has called for a blanket ban on the use of the material in food containers across California.

A private member's bill that would see supermarkets and other retailers forced to take responsibility for the packaging on their goods has been debated in the Commons.

Convenient, flimsy, costly, cynical, manipulative, wasteful, deadly...we'll never forget the plastic bag

Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?

No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe.

Supermarket in-store bakeries are nothing but bogus ‘retail theatre’

We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you.

New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health

Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?