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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 90436 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Nov 2025

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Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that small producers are not placed at a cash flow disadvantage compared with larger producers under the payment structures of the extende

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 20 Nov 2025

pEPR in the UK has some of the most generous support measures for small businesses across any packaging scheme globally. These are exemptions from disposal fee and recycling obligations for producers with an annual turnover below £2 million and packaging ...