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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Dame Caroline DinenageConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 15 October 2024UIN 7740

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to implement regulations through powers introduced in the Environment Act 2021 to require producers to take responsibility for the waste that arises from their products.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, which reform the UKs producer responsibility system for packaging, are due to be brought before parliament in autumn this year, with the aim of these regulations coming into force by 1 January 2025.

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