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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Gavin RobinsonDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 25 November 2024UIN 15183

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether obligated packaging producers will be required to pay Extended Producer Responsibility fees for packaging data submitted to his Department for 2024.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Yes. If the company is still a producer at the start of the 2025 assessment year then 2024 tonnage data will be used to calculate their obligation in 2025. This is in line with the current producer packaging recycling obligations that have been in place since 1997.

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