Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 43650

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 11 April 2025

Question

Dr Ellie Chowns

Green PartyNorth Herefordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of facilitating the recycling of blister packs.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Through making producers responsible for the costs of managing the packaging they use; packaging extended producer responsibility incentivises producers to use less packaging and transition to re-usable or easy-to-recycle packaging. Defra has previously c...

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