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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2023 to Question 136753 on Packaging: Recycling, how the funding model would work for obligated businesses paying into the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme.

The funding model involves every obligated producer being billed for its share of the full net costs incurred by UK local authorities managing household packaging waste. Local authority costs will be determined by the Scheme Administrator using a model that assumes local authority packaging waste management is efficient and effective. Each producer’s share will reflect the weight of packaging associated with the products they supply in the UK. From 2025/26, fees will be adjusted (“modulated”) to reflect the recyclability of packaging materials. The scale of the adjustments will be determined by the Scheme Administrator. In addition to making payments to local authorities for the costs of managing packaging waste, each producer will contribute to the operating costs of the Scheme Administrator.