So what Canada Post is trying to do is make the labour-intensive things you do—for example, packaging, postal money orders and so forth—more lucrative.

12. Calls on the Commission, when drawing up development policies, to support measures aimed at reducing waste along the entire food supply chain in developing countries where production methods, post-harvest management, processing and packaging infrastructure and processes are problematic and inadequate; suggests encouraging the modernisation of this agricultural equipment and infrastructure in order to reduce post-harvest losses and extend the shelf-life of food; believes, further, that improving the efficiency of the food supply chain can help the countries concerned achieve food self-sufficiency;

This obligation does not apply if the producer participates in a post-consumer collection and recovery system, provided drinks sold in reusable packaging account for at least 72% of drinks sold in Germany [148].

Overall, 41% of these jobs are in tuna processing and the manufacture of packaging for the canning industry.

P. whereas the percentage of pre-consumer PVC waste currently recycled is about 80%, while that of post-consumer PVC is only around 3% of annual sales and this method of waste treatment is also basically limited to sectoral applications such as pipe systems, sections for use in building, and roofing membranes, and a few schemes for cable, packaging and floor-covering waste,

The panel recommended government action in nine areas: tobacco prices; public education; marketing, including packaging, labelling and information disclosure; retail outlets; smoke-free spaces; supports for smoking secession; finance and infrastructure; research monitoring and evaluation; and cost recovery litigation.