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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 12439 · Tabled 4 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 11 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Gareth Snell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the extended producer responsibility scheme on (a) creating a circular economy for recycled materials and (b) ensuring bus

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 11 Nov 2024

The Department’s impact assessment, published here, has considered the impacts on the UK materials reprocessing industry and the associated carbon savings from increased recycling following the introduction of extended producer responsibility for packagin...