Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 40943

Recycling: Public Houses

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 1 April 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that pubs are not charged twice for recycling glass bottles under Extended Producer Responsibility rules.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) obligates brands and packaging producers to pay the costs of managing household packaging waste. In most cases, this will not be individual pubs but the business supplying the pub with packaged goods. It i...
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