the directive further requires that member states adopt waste management plans and waste prevention programmes the issue of plastic waste is spread over the legislation for instance the separate plastic waste collection target in the waste framework directive and the household waste collection target by when it comes to packaging which includes the largest plastic waste stream the eu packaging and packaging waste directive was the first directive that put forward quantified targets for certain substances in packaging as well as prescribing by what means packaging waste should be recycled or recovered the directive also includes qualitative objectives for the prevention of packaging waste and promoting of reuse this is also put forward in article and furthermore by allowing for the introduction of the extended producer responsibility epr on packaging in article and article of the packaging and packaging waste directive ec