Source · Select Committees · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Third Report - The price of plastic: ending the toll of plastic waste
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
HC 22
Published 7 November 2022
Recommendations
3
Accepted in Part
Para 25
We also recommend that other government targets be revised to reflect and implement the waste...
Recommendation
We also recommend that other government targets be revised to reflect and implement the waste hierarchy. These changes should cover: • Reducing the volume of plastic that is put on the market. Where plastic is replaced with other materials, the …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees with the Committee on the importance of the waste hierarchy and states that it has been developing a new Waste Prevention Programme for England, aiming to embed a circular economy approach. They also recognise the importance of continuing to move focus to reuse, prevention and reduction.
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Accepted in Part
Para 35
We recommend that the new Government reaffirms its commitment to Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging...
Recommendation
We recommend that the new Government reaffirms its commitment to Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging and a re-accelerated process to implement the system in order to meet the targets set for 2025. This requires publication of a consultation on EPR …
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Government Response Summary
The government remains committed to introducing pEPR on a phased basis from 2024, focusing initially on payments for household packaging waste managed by local authorities, with modulated fees introduced at a later date. They will engage with producers and stakeholders on a granular list of packaging and how modulated fees will be applied, and will publish for feedback their best estimate of these rates.
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Accepted in Part
Para 99
By 2023, the Government should update its infrastructure roadmap to set out its plan for...
Recommendation
By 2023, the Government should update its infrastructure roadmap to set out its plan for the future role of chemical recycling and composting within our plastics economy and waste management system. In particular, the Government must make a decision, based …
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Government Response Summary
The government will publish the ‘Waste Infrastructure Roadmap’ this year; agrees with the importance of clarity when labelling, pointing to CMA guidance and reaffirming its position that compostable plastics have a limited role given they are inherently single use, and that compostable and biodegradable packaging would be expected to have the ‘do not recycle’ label applied until infrastructure and evidence base is improved.