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Plastics: Consumption and Production

Commons · Question 14246 · Tabled 13 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 27 Nov 2024

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Asked by Sarah Dyke

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 9584 on Plastics: Treaties, what level of (a) production and (b) consumption of primary plastic polymers is sustainable.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 27 Nov 2024

The UK supports measures under the proposed Global Plastics Treaty to reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels, and the Government recognises that further work will be needed to establish what those sustainab...