Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 37339

Waste Disposal: Hospitality Industry

Tabled: 11 March 2025

Answered: 19 March 2025

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Question

Sarah Edwards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure hospitality businesses are not double charged for the handling of their waste, in the context of the introduction of extended producer responsibil

Answer

Mary Creagh

Under packaging extended producer responsibility, packaging producers are only liable for fees that cover the management of packaging waste collected from households. The regulations therefore make a distinction as to what is "household packaging&quo...

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