Clause 1 - Duties of the Secretary of State
Municipal Waste Recycling Bill
4:36 pm
Ms Sue Doughty (Guildford, Liberal Democrat)
I shall speak briefly, as I made the point that I wanted to make earlier. I thank the Minister for his commitment that recycling means recycling and does not mean composting or going to dirty MRFs and for his strong commitment that local authorities will not carry additional burdens, as that would be counter-productive. I also thank him for the contribution that that will make to increasing the amount of recyclates taken from incinerators and landfill and reused as resources. In our deliberations on other Bills, we talked about the need for considering zero waste and the much better use of resources. The Bill is a step in the right direction. I appreciate the work that has been done to place it on to the statute book and to start seeing it deliver.
Question put and negatived.
Clause 1 disagreed to.
Clauses 2 to 5 disagreed to.