Glass: Packaging

(asked on 30th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a comparative analysis of glass packaging Extended Producer Responsibility fees in other advanced economies.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 4th November 2026

In October 2024, the Government published an assessment of the impact of the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for packaging, including cumulative costs. This assessed packaging producers as a whole but did not provide a separate estimate for the brewing sector.

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