Question follow-through · 71500

Recycling: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on mandating the (a) size and (b) clarity of recycling labels on consumer plastic products.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 29 Aug 2025
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2025
Answer: 4 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on mandating the (a) size and (b) clarity of recycling labels on consumer plastic products.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to introducing mandatory recycling labelling for packaging. We are aiming to do this in 2028 once we have reviewed the potential to bring forward an approach that is consistent with the provisions being established under PPWR f...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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