Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39103
Glass: Recycling
Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025
Question
Greg Smith
Conservative — Mid Buckinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to (a) exempt or (b) reduce extended producer responsibility fees for brewers using glass bottles containing a high proportion of recycled glass.
Answer
Mary CreaghExtended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) requires producers to bear the end-of-life costs associated with packaging that they place on the market, rather than the proportion of recycled materials contained. Officials have been working with st...
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