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Plastics: Chewing Gum

Commons · Question 62948 · Tabled 26 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 4 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations of the Just one ocean policy brief entitled, Plastic chewing gum: a hidden micro

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 4 Jul 2025

No assessment has been made of the potential implications for policies of the recommendations made in the Just one ocean policy brief entitled, Plastic chewing gum: a hidden microplastic health hazard and plastic polluter. The Government is currently cons...