Excess food packaging
- Reduce the amount of packaging you throw away
- The impact of excess packaging on the environment
- Essential advice from Which? on shopping without plastic carrier bags
- What are retailers doing to cut waste packaging and reduce their environmental impact?
What's in this guide
Excess packaging tips
Easy advice for reducing excess food packaging. Find out reducing, recycling and complaining about excess packaging, and ways to avoid it altogether
Retailer action
What businesses can do to cut down excess packaging. Plus find out about the legal requirements for food packaging
Reduce plastic bags
How you can reduce, reuse and recycle carrier bags, plus what supermarkets are doing to help
Packaging FAQs
Commonly-asked questions and answers about food packaging