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Packaging: Recycling

Commons · Question 99517 · Tabled 12 Dec 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 18 Dec 2025

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Asked by Melanie Onn

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions her Department has had with packaging manufacturers and distributors on the financial sustainability of Extended Producer Responsibility, and what steps she is taking

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 18 Dec 2025

The Government has engaged extensively with packaging manufacturers, distributors and representative bodies as part of the development of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme. This engagement has included public consultations, technical working gro...