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Waste Disposal: Hospitality Industry

Asked by Sarah EdwardsLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 19 March 2025UIN 37339

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure hospitality businesses are not double charged for the handling of their waste, in the context of the introduction of extended producer responsibility for packaging.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Under packaging extended producer responsibility, packaging producers are only liable for fees that cover the management of packaging waste collected from households. The regulations therefore make a distinction as to what is "household packaging" and what is not, so as to attribute those costs to producers.

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