Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 16454

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 7 July 2026

Answered: 14 July 2026

Question

Melanie Onn

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to correspondence reference MC2026/09208/NA, what assessment he has made of the potential impact pEPR rules being for glass distributors on (a) costs to consumers and (b) leve

Answer

Mary Creagh

The Government published its October 2024 assessment of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. It assessed packaging producers as a whole, including consumer-price impacts, but did not assess glass distributors specifica...

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