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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 39108 · 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, whether his Department considered alternatives to extended producer responsibility.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 25 Mar 2025

The Government consulted on the principles, objectives, and proposals for extended producer responsibility in 2019 and 2021, and these received high levels of support. This followed initial lobbying in 2018 from the sector, which preferred extended produc...