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Glass: Recycling

Commons · Question 88257 · Tabled 5 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 13 Nov 2025

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Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the extended producer responsibility scheme on (a) glass manufacturing and (b) the jobs it supports.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 13 Nov 2025

In autumn last year my department published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (pEPR) scheme on packaging producers as a whole when the regulations were laid in parliament. This does not i...