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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 39097 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 25 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by 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 reduce investment in UK manufacturing.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 25 Mar 2025

The scheme treats domestic manufacturing and import equally, with all packaging and packaged products, whether manufactured and supplied domestically or imported into UK, subject to the obligations in the Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations. Simi...