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Beverage Containers: Recycling

Commons · Question 57564 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 12 Jun 2025

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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

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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...