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 enable recycling all glass food and drink packaging at the kerbside via the new system of Extended Producer Responsibility and consistent household collections as outlined in the Government’s response to the Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging consultation of March 2022.

The Environment Act 2021 stipulates that local authorities in England must make arrangements for a core set of materials to be collected for recycling from households. This core set includes glass. Our 2019 consistent collection government response confirmed that local authorities in England would have to collect at least glass bottles and containers. Last year we published a second consultation on recycling consistency, seeking views on the materials in scope of collection in each of the recyclable waste streams that will be included in regulations. We will publish our response in due course. The payments local authorities will receive for household packaging under EPR will support the delivery of the UK government's proposals for consistent household recycling collections. Glass food and drinks packaging will be in scope of EPR in England, which will place targets on producers in relation to glass recycling and require them to pay for the cost of managing glass packaging generated by households.