Question follow-through · 89983
Bottles: Plastics
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) all plastic bottles sold in the UK are fully recyclable and (b) 100 per cent of such bottles are recycled by 2030.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) all plastic bottles sold in the UK are fully recyclable and (b) 100 per cent of such bottles are recycled by 2030.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is coming to England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland in October 2027 and will focus on increasing recycling and reducing littering. A new organisation called UK Deposit Management Organisation Ltd (UK DMO) will run the sche...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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