Pesky plastic tags on loaves of bread, tiny soy sauce fish bottles and detachable bottle tops are all being binned by a state government battling a mounting rubbish crisis.

The ambitious clean-up is part of an expanded ban by NSW coinciding with the start of National Recycling Week.

The NSW Plastic Plan 2.0 , will see the winding down of plastic bread tags and pizza box savers from late 2027 and non-compostable plastic fruit and vegetable stickers by 2030.

It will also require businesses to introduce tethered lids, meaning the cap or lid on a plastic bottle must remain attached to the bottle itself, even after it is opened, by 2030.

Without action, Sydney could run out of landfill space by 2030 with predictions there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050.

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