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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Mark SewardsLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 6 May 2025UIN 48692

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility packaging taxation will ensure that the cost of recycling is passed to manufacturers.

Answered by Mary Creagh

Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) implements the polluter-pays principle by obligating brands and packaging producers to pay the costs of managing household packaging waste.

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