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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise the adoption by manufacturers of packaging of environmentally friendly designs.

On 11 January 2018 we published our 25 Year Environment Plan that stated our ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and, in particular, the waste from single use plastics.

As part of delivering this work, we will be exploring how we can develop our producer responsibility schemes to give producers greater incentives to design more resource efficient products, including packaging.