Writing Task 2Reported 13 June 2026

Who should reduce excessive packaging — producers or consumers?

The question

Some people think that manufacturers and supermarkets should reduce excessive packaging, while others believe consumers are responsible. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

How to answer it

This is a responsibility question, so argue from who actually has the power to change the outcome. Consumers choose between what is on the shelf; producers decide what goes on the shelf in the first place. Give the consumer side its genuine strength — demand shapes supply and refill schemes only work if people use them — then land on producers, ideally with the point that a rule applied to a few hundred firms is enforceable in a way that millions of shoppers are not.

What moves the band

Responsibility essays reward the word 'incentive' used properly: who pays for the waste today, and who should.
Do not moralise about shoppers; the examiner is marking argument, not virtue.

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