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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a UK-based beverage manufacturer can accept returns of all recyclable product packaging to offset their Extended Producer Responsibility levy.

Existing provisions in the pEPR regulations only allow for offsets from disposal cost fees for:

• packaging that is not commonly collected by Local Authorities for recycling, defined as packaging collected by less than 75% of Local Authorities; or
• reusable packaging that has been used at least once and has become waste where that packaging is collected by a producer and recycled.