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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 52546 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 22 May 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the potential impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility fees for (a) glass and (b) plastic packaging on small producers

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 22 May 2025

In October 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the pEPR scheme on packaging producers as a whole. This impact assessment did not split the assessment by sector. The Government recognises the importance of prot...