Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 42347

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 28 March 2025
Answered: 4 April 2025

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions his Department has had with international counterparts on best practices for balancing the environmental benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility with economic sus

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra and PackUK have engaged with multiple European and Canadian EPR schemes throughout development of pEPR, using international best practice to inform the drafting of the regulations. Many of the international EPR schemes are managed by Producer Respon...
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