Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 5330

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 11 September 2024
Answered: 7 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist PartyBelfast East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of pausing the implementation of the Extender Producer Responsibility scheme.

Answer

Mary Creagh
This Government is committed to Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) as a vital first step to cracking down on waste as we move towards a circular economy. It will create 21,000 jobs, stimulate more than £10 billion investment in the recy...

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