Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15183

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 20 November 2024

Answered: 25 November 2024

Named Day

Question

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist Party — Belfast East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether obligated packaging producers will be required to pay Extended Producer Responsibility fees for packaging data submitted to his Department for 2024.

Answer

Mary Creagh

Yes. If the company is still a producer at the start of the 2025 assessment year then 2024 tonnage data will be used to calculate their obligation in 2025. This is in line with the current producer packaging recycling obligations that have been in place s...

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