Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 17902

Packaging: Recycling

Tabled: 10 July 2026
Answered: 16 July 2026

Question

Mr Will Forster

Liberal DemocratWoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made a comparative assessment of the cost of Extended Producer Responsibility in the (a) United Kingdom and (b) European Union.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra has considered the design of similar schemes in European countries as Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging has been developed in the UK. However, direct cost comparisons of schemes in different countries can be misleading because schemes d...

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