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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 47856, tabled on 24 April 2025

Question

Josh Newbury
Labour
Cannock Chase
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department will introduce statutory guidance for the implementation of Simpler Recycling.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Labour
Coventry East
Commons

Answered on

6 May 2025

We have published non-statutory guidance to assist local authorities, other waste collectors and workplaces implement the Simpler Recycling requirements. This includes guidance on:

We welcome stakeholder feedback, and we are working with our networks of local authority and waste collector stakeholders to identify and develop additional guidance where appropriate.

We are also working collaboratively with sector experts, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), to provide further tools and guidance to support the implementation of Simpler Recycling.

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