Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39108

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Greg Smith

ConservativeMid Buckinghamshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department considered alternatives to extended producer responsibility.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government consulted on the principles, objectives, and proposals for extended producer responsibility in 2019 and 2021, and these received high levels of support. This followed initial lobbying in 2018 from the sector, which preferred extended produc...

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