Plastics: Waste
Commons · Question 18725 · Tabled 9 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Joe Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of restrictions on the use of single-use plastic.
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 12 Dec 2024
Defra officials are in the process of conducting a Post Implementation Review of the Environmental Regulations 2020, which includes the bans and restrictions on plastic straws, stirrers, and plastic-stemmed cotton buds. This is due to be published in Octo...