Glass: Recycling
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made a comparative assessment of the attractiveness of foreign investment in glass manufacturing in (a) the UK, (b) France and (c) Germany following the introduction of the Extended Producer Responsibility.
Answered by Mary Creagh
My department has not undertaken an assessment of this specific topic, but has engaged extensively with other countries that operate extended producer responsibility schemes across the EU and across the world. Extended producer responsibility is an internationally recognised model to reduce packaging waste and improve recycling levels. The UK’s largest waste management companies have pledged a £10 billion investment in the UK’s reprocessing capacity, creating around 25,000 jobs on the back of the packaging reforms.
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