Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 51181

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 9 May 2025
Answered: 22 May 2025

Question

Marie Goldman

Liberal DemocratChelmsford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reporting materials by weight in the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on incentives for producers to use (a) soft plastics

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra and PackUK have engaged extensively with waste management experts and the packaging industry across all materials, to ensure that the modelling of local authority costs underpinning the pEPR scheme fairly reflects the on-the-ground reality of waste ...

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