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 Party — Belfast 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 CreaghExtended 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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