Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39552

Glass: Recycling

Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Afzal Khan

LabourManchester Rusholme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing extended producer responsibility collection targets for glass bottles to 90%.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Collection targets are not a feature of the extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging (pEPR). However, the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, which implement pEPR, set challenging, but achieva...

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