Beverage Containers: Recycling
Commons · Question 57564 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question 53757 on Beverage Containers: Recycling, whether UK-based beverage manufacturers can accept used recyclable containers of (a) their ow
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 12 Jun 2025
The packaging EPR Regulations allow, in some circumstances, packaging collected by producers from consumers, and subsequently recycled, to be offset against their disposal fee obligations. These are currently limited to hard to recycle packaging (e.g. pla...