Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 53756

Beverage Containers: Recycling

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 28 May 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

ConservativeIsle of Wight East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether beverage industry manufacturers will be required to pay the Extended Producer Responsibility levy if they sell their products in the on-trade market with proof from the vendor

Answer

Mary Creagh
The current regulations do not allow for this. This is because there are real challenges in effectively applying and compliance monitoring such an exemption across all sectors and producer types, resulting in a significant risk of misreporting and fraud. ...

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