From 1 January 2027, retailers and food-service outlets must stop supplying or holding specified plastic products, with exceptions for some packaging and recycled garbage bags.
Armenia’s Environment Ministry says retailers will be prohibited from supplying or holding polyethylene bags and specified single-use plastic products from 1 January 2027. The law exempts bags used to weigh and package goods, recycled-material garbage bags and lidded plastic containers used to weigh and package goods.
The restrictions come under Law HO-110-N, an amendment to the Law on Trade and Services adopted on 25 March 2026. They apply to retail outlets, food-service establishments and trading venues, as well as mobile sales points, fairs, exhibition-sales, peddling and outdoor retail trade.
The law lists single-use plastic containers, including foam-plastic containers, as well as plates, cups, cup lids, spoons, forks, knives, drinking straws and stirrers. Its packaging exemptions remain in place when the restrictions take effect.
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