Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 57564

Beverage Containers: Recycling

Tabled: 4 June 2025

Answered: 12 June 2025

Question

Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question 53757 on Beverage Containers: Recycling, whether UK-based beverage manufacturers can accept used recyclable containers of (a) their ow

Answer

Mary Creagh

The packaging EPR Regulations allow, in some circumstances, packaging collected by producers from consumers, and subsequently recycled, to be offset against their disposal fee obligations. These are currently limited to hard to recycle packaging (e.g. pla...

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