Packaging (Extended Producer Responsibility) Bill

Key Points

• Introduces extended producer responsibility for packaging, placing end-of-life duties on packaging producers.
• Producers must arrange and fund the collection, transport, recycling, disposal, treatment and recovery of packaging waste.
• Intended to improve recycling rates and reduce packaging waste by assigning costs to producers.
• Applies to packaging placed on the market in the UK and creates a regulatory framework governing producers' responsibilities.

Progress

The bill originated in the House of Commons and had its first reading in 2018. It is currently at the second reading in the Commons; no further stages are listed here.