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Packaging: Recycling

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 47858, tabled on 24 April 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to introduce a target for the recycling of fibre-based composite packaging.

Answered on

6 May 2025

The Government continues to keep the need and timing for the introduction of a separate FBC targets under review. We will consider further once we have improved data on the tonnages of FBC placed on the marked, and the tonnage currently recycled, to establish appropriate targets.

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