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

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to secure the recycling of medical blister packs, particularly to ensure that provision for collection is free, universal, and processing can be done in the UK.

Waste is a devolved policy, and the devolved administrations have their own arrangements for household and business recycling and waste collections. There are currently no plans for blister packs to be included in the list of materials to be collected at kerbside through Simpler Recycling reforms.

Modulation of pEPR fees, which will be introduced in from year 2 of the scheme, will be used to disincentivise packaging formats that are not readily recyclable.