Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 13847

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 12 November 2024
Answered: 18 November 2024

Question

Claire Hanna

Social Democratic & Labour PartyBelfast South and Mid Down

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the policy objective is of (a) extended producer responsibility and (b) packaging recovering notes; and what the relationship is between the two policies.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) is intended to make producers responsible for the costs of managing their packaging, incentivising them to use less packaging and make the packaging they do use more sustainable. The key pEPR obligatio...

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