text: In United Kingdom, after the Clean Growth strategy (October 2017) and the 25-year plan to improve the natural environment (January 2018), a new waste strategy will be introduced this year to achieve zero avoidable waste strategy by 2050. The strategy will set out the government's approach to reducing waste, promoting markets for secondary materials, incentivizing producers to design better products, and considering how to better manage materials at the end of their useful life.
  Germany has comparatively strict recycling laws that include biowaste. In 2017, the European Commission confirmed that Germany has achieved, thanks to its innovative approaches, a high recycling rate of municipal waste. Still, Germany has not yet taken specific regulatory measures to reduce food waste.
  It will be interesting to closely monitor the adoption of other similar measures in the pipeline, such as the proposal of a Directive on Single Use Plastic Products and the implementation of the Member States' implementation of the CEP by July 5, 2020, which should limit the current wide disparities among Member States in waste management.