Glass: Recycling
Commons · Question 39103 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Greg Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to (a) exempt or (b) reduce extended producer responsibility fees for brewers using glass bottles containing a high proportion of recycled glass.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 1 Apr 2025
Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) requires producers to bear the end-of-life costs associated with packaging that they place on the market, rather than the proportion of recycled materials contained. Officials have been working with st...