Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 35104

Glass: Packaging

Tabled: 3 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025

Question

Alex Easton

IndependentNorth Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the Extender Producer Responsibility fee structure on the glass packaging industry; and whether he has consider

Answer

Mary Creagh
Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) will move the cost of dealing with household packaging waste away from taxpayers and onto the packaging producers (applying the ‘polluter pays principle’). This will give producers responsibility for t...

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