Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83428

Plastics: Recycling

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Shaun Davies

LabourTelford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to (a) maintain and (b) promote a plastic recycling industry.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra’s Collection and Packaging reforms – Simpler Recycling, Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) and a Deposit Return Scheme - will provide feedstock certainty whilst also stimulating private investment in the recycling industry. Defra ...

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