Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39195

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Euan Stainbank

LabourFalkirk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed base-rate Extended Producer Responsibility fees on levels of use of different recyclable materials by th

Answer

Mary Creagh
Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) requires producers to bear the end-of-life costs associated with packaging that they place on the market, rather than the proportion of recycled materials contained. The Recyclability Assessment Method...

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