Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 86965

Beverage Containers: Recycling

Tabled: 30 October 2025
Answered: 5 November 2025

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme’s glass packaging fees on the competitiveness of small and medium-sized beverage pro

Answer

Mary Creagh
In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole, when the regulations were laid in parliament. This impact as...

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