Food: Packaging
2026-05-17 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · HL238 · Official question
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cumulative financial impact on food and drinks businesses of (1) the extended producer responsibility for packaging, (2) the plastic packaging tax, and (3) the packaging recovery note s
Answer
In autumn 2024, the Government published an updated assessment of the impact of introducing Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR). This assessed impacts on packaging producers as a whole but was not sector specific. The impact of the intro...