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<p>Tobacco packaging is covered by the current producer responsibility regulations,
which require companies to recycle a proportion of the packaging waste they place
on the market. They will also be subject to the forthcoming extended producer responsibility
scheme for packaging which will cover the full net costs of managing packaging at
its end of life, including litter, expected to be introduced in 2023.</p><p> </p><p>In
the Resources and Waste Strategy, we committed to looking into and consulting on extended
producer responsibility for five new waste-streams by 2025, and consulting on two
of these by 2022. We have currently identified our five priority waste-streams as:
textiles, fishing gear, certain products in construction and demolition, bulky waste,
and vehicle tyres. This list is not fixed and does not exclude the potential to review
and consult on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for other waste streams if these
are identified as being of equal or higher priority.</p><p> </p><p>The EU’s Single-Use
Plastics Directive includes measures to implement an EPR scheme for tobacco products
with filters, and filters marketed for use in combination with tobacco products, which
should cover the costs of awareness raising, data gathering and litter clean-up of
these products.</p><p> </p><p>It is the Government’s ambition to use the opportunity
of leaving the EU to refresh and renew our environmental policy. An assessment of
the legislative work required to transpose the Single-Use Plastics Directive is currently
being undertaken.</p>
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