Question follow-through · 46914
Recycling: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cartons collected by local authorities (a) currently and (b) following the implementation of Simpler Recycling requirements are (i) r
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cartons collected by local authorities (a) currently and (b) following the implementation of Simpler Recycling requirements are (i) r
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Simpler Recycling reforms will require the same materials to be collected for recycling from every household and workplace (such as businesses, schools and hospitals) across England. These materials fall into the following core groups: metal; glass; p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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