Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility - 1st July 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Packaging Manufacturers: Extended Producer Responsibility.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-07-01/debates/8D589BF9-7DEA-4BB3-BB9A-F5DFF19CA0CD/PackagingManufacturersExtendedProducerResponsibility

16:48 Mary Creagh (Labour)

Let me begin by also declaring my interest as a member of the GMB trade union. I recognise the challenging context in which the glass industry operates; that is a result of a range of global pressures, including the international increases in energy costs, volatile commodity prices, growing international competition, and substantial investment in decarbonising energy-intensive manufacturing processes. I also recognise and acknowledge the industry’s concerns about packaging extended producer responsibility, or PEPR, which is an internationally recognised model used in more than 30 countries to transform recycling services. The model shifts the cost of managing packaging waste from taxpayers—that is us—to the producers who put it on the market. It is the “polluter pays” principle in action. Its introduction in this country is the biggest change to recycling policy in 25 years.

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17:08 Mary Creagh (Labour)

While it requires up-front investment and system change, it shifts costs away from single-use production and disposal, it improves supply chain resilience and reduces costs over time. Reuse is already operating at scale internationally, particularly for glass. Reusing a glass bottle just five times can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third. The more times they are reused, the greater the benefits will be.

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