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Packaging: Recycling

Asked by Brian LeishmanLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 3 December 2025UIN 94862

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme on (a) glass manufacturers in Scotland, (b) economic growth in Scotland and (c) changes from glass to less sustainable packaging materials.

Answered by Mary Creagh

In autumn last year my department published an assessment of the impacts of implementing extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR), when the regulations were laid in parliament. This impact assessment does not include an assessment of the impact on specific materials or sectors or disaggregate at a national level.

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