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Plastics: Recycling

Commons · Question 48752 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

Question

Asked by Maya Ellis

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help increase local authority capacity to recycle plastics.

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 8 May 2025

Defra officials have engaged extensively with local authorities and representative bodies such as the Local Government Association and the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee on the introduction of the Simpler Recycling reforms to both workplaces...