Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 80392
Packaging: Recycling
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
David Smith
Labour — North Northumberland
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that supermarkets are required to use packaging that is recyclable through household recycling systems; and whether she has considered tak
Answer
Mary CreaghThe Government is taking several steps to incentivise the use of use or recyclable packaging by supermarkets and other producers.Under the UK wide Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme, which came into effect on 1 January 2025, prod...
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