Plastics: Treaties
Commons · Question 27464 · Tabled 29 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Simon Opher
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the introduction of a binding global target to cut all forms of primary plastic polymer production.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 5 Feb 2025
The UK supports a global target on the sustainable production of primary plastic polymers. Last year, at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a treaty to end plastic pollution, the UK endorsed a statement calling for all cou...