Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39100

Recycling: Packaging

Tabled: 18 March 2025

Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Greg Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that the extended producer responsibility scheme does not disproportionately impact (a) consumer choice and (b) product availability.

Answer

Mary Creagh

Through making producers responsible for the costs of managing the packaging they use; packaging extended producer responsibility will incentivise producers to use less packaging and transition to re-usable or easy-to-recycle packaging. Defra have not ide...

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