Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 38162

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 13 March 2025
Answered: 19 March 2025
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Question

Nick Timothy

Conservative — West Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has taken steps to promote material substitution, in the context of (a) recent trends in the level of Extended Producer Responsibility Fees and (b) the introduction of a de

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. The packaging reforms increase producers’ roles in supporting this transition. Packaging EPR will make producers, rather than taxpayers, responsible for the costs of managing their packag...
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