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<p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, as part of
the Collection and Packaging reforms, will move the full cost of dealing with packaging
waste generated by households from local taxpayers and councils to businesses that
handle and use packaging (applying the ‘polluter-pays principle’). This will encourage
businesses to think carefully about how much packaging they use and how easy it is
to recycle. It will also encourage use of refillable and reusable packaging which
will have a great role to play in driving down unnecessary waste.</p><p> </p><p>We
are working with WRAP to identify and analyse measures that could be used to encourage
greater use of refillable and reuseable packaging. We remain committed to introducing
refill/reuse obligations and will bring forward our proposals shortly.</p>
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