Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 74009

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 5 September 2025

Question

Ian Sollom

Liberal DemocratSt Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Extended Producer Responsibility fee structures on UK manufacturers’ investment in sustainable fibre-based composite packaging in

Answer

Mary Creagh
In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector or material type. Since January 2025 the Recyclab...

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