Plastic packaging, what are the regulations changing?

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In France, since January 1, 2022, most unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables must be sold without packaging.

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

In France, since January 1, 2022, most unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables must be sold without packaging. 

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Finished the batch of apples or the cucumber to the unit in plastic film.

A measure provided for by the anti-waste law and which should extend to other fruits and vegetables until 2026. Food plastic packaging is, in fact, the first users of the plastic produced in the world.

The French government hopes to remove more than a billion unnecessary plastic packaging each year, thanks to these bans.

An ambitious figure but which seems like a drop in the bucket because plastic has invaded our lives.

As bulk sales, recycling, and alternatives to plastic develop what are the technical limits of plastic regulation?  

Can Africa draw on its traditions of packaging in natural materials to reduce the use of plastic on the continent? 

With :

Nathalie Gontard

, Research Director at  

, specialist in plastic without plastic and zero waste.

Author with Hélène Seinger of

Sébastien Jacques

, public affairs manager at

, a professional association representing plastic packaging manufacturers (rigid and flexible) in France

Sylvain Dabadé

, research professor at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Abomey-Calavi in ​​Benin.

Deputy local coordinator of

.

This project aims to extend the shelf life of perishable foods from West Africa through simple packaging solutions.

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