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Recycling: Public Houses

Commons · Question 42582 · Tabled 31 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 3 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Liz Saville Roberts

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of pubs and breweries which pay costs associated with the management of packaging waste under the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme who al

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 3 Apr 2025

Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) obligates brands and packaging producers to pay the costs of managing household packaging waste. In most cases, this will not be individual pubs but the business supplying the pub with packaged goods where...