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Domestic Waste: Recycling

Commons · Question 23650 · Tabled 13 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 29 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Joe Robertson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the policy paper entitled Simpler Recycling in England: policy update, published on 29 November 2024, what the evidential basis is for the statement that he inherited

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 29 Jan 2025

The Environment Act 2021 created a requirement for the six recyclable waste streams to be collected separately from each other and be re-collected separately from residual waste for all households in England. The Government has now laid regulations to str...