Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 41543

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 6 May 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

ConservativeWest Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of plastic recycling facilities that have closed since 2010.

Answer

Mary Creagh
There is no historical record of closures of plastics recycling facilitiesHowever the National Packaging Waste Database which is held by the Environment Agency provides a Public Register of Accredited Reprocessors and Exporters - including those handling ...

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