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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...