Glass Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility
Debate between Allison Gardner and Mary Creagh(3 days, 7 hours ago)
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Mary Creagh
That number will be published by the end of June and businesses are aware of that timescale.
Dr Gardner
There are wider issues with EPR, including for innovative companies supplying new types of packaging. Woolcool produces wool-based packaging that is compostable and biodegradable, but it is classed as worse than polystyrene because it is so innovative that it is unclassified. Will the Minister agree to look into that?
Mary Creagh
I will look into that. I know that wool is used in certain packaging situations. In a way, its usage is too small to register, but we will look at all these innovative ideas and how we keep things in circulation for as long as possible. My hon. Friend the Member for Burton and Uttoxeter (Jacob Collier) mentioned many pubs—did he mention Greene King?