Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15033

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 1 July 2026

Answered: 7 July 2026

Question

Patrick Hurley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 12585 on Packaging: Recycling, whether the ongoing review of the wider impacts of Extended Producer Responsibility for packagin

Answer

Mary Creagh

Under the scheme, obligations are based on packaging placed on the market and statutory thresholds, rather than business model. Producers are exempt from disposal fee and recycling obligations where they have annual turnover below £2 million and place les...

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