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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Sir Alec ShelbrookeConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 1 November 2024UIN 10981

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what body will administer the non-household packaging elements of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme; and when he plans to publish details of that body.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Obligations on non-household packaging elements of the upcoming Extended Producer Responsibility scheme will continue to be enforced by the Environment Agency in England and the equivalent regulators in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as these obligations are in the current producer responsibility scheme.

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