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<p>The Government is currently working with retailers and the Waste and Resources
Action Programme (WRAP) to encourage their efforts to reduce waste and to explore
the introduction of plastic-free supermarket initiatives in which fresh food is sold
loose, giving consumers the choice.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently consulted
on reforms to the packaging producer responsibility system to ensure that packaging
producers meet the full cost of managing and recycling packaging waste. This provides
a strong incentive to producers to reduce the amount of packaging they use and to
make packaging that is more easily collected and recycled.</p><p> </p><p>Industry
is already taking action. In April last year, WRAP and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation
launched their world-leading UK Plastics Pact, with support from the Government, and
all the major supermarkets have signed up to it. The Pact brings these organisations
together with four key targets for 2025 that aim to reduce the amount of plastic waste
generated, which include action to eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use
plastic packaging items. Our proposed reforms will support supermarkets in achieving
those targets.</p>
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