Plastics: Consumption and Production
Commons · Question 14246 · Tabled 13 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Question
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...