General Question · S3O-00657 · Session 3
What progress it is making on encouraging supermarkets to reduce excess packaging.
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it is making on encouraging supermarkets to reduce excess packaging.
The answer
Where packaging isgenuinely excessive, the supplier would be liable to enforcement action under theprovisions of the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2003, which arereserved.
The Scottish Governmentis working with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to ensure furtheraction by retailers to implement the Courtauld Commitment to reduce packaging andwaste. In addition, we have set increasing recovery obligations in the producerresponsibility regulations for packaging.
The Scottish Governmentis working with the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to ensure furtheraction by retailers to implement the Courtauld Commitment to reduce packaging andwaste. In addition, we have set increasing recovery obligations in the producerresponsibility regulations for packaging.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3O-00657 by reference.