Packaging: Recycling
Commons · Question 51181 · Tabled 9 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 22 May 2025
Question
Asked by Marie Goldman
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reporting materials by weight in the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on incentives for producers to use (a) soft plastics
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 22 May 2025
Defra and PackUK have engaged extensively with waste management experts and the packaging industry across all materials, to ensure that the modelling of local authority costs underpinning the pEPR scheme fairly reflects the on-the-ground reality of waste ...