Schedule 5
Climate Change Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
David Maclean (Penrith and The Border, Conservative)
I promise I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but please give me a minute to finish this point. As I was saying, it is acceptable to have differences around the country, but those differences should be within certain parameters. It should not be within the parameters for local authorities to so narrowly define newspaper, card, or material that they will not accept, and to do so not because it is not recyclable or they cannot do anything with it, but because they have just entered into a contract with Mr. Snoggins, who will take only—[Interruption.]. Well in that case the council should enter into a contract with Mr. Y, who will take the thicker cardboard or the newspaper.