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Plastic Pollution

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at on 25 July 2019.

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Photo of Sandy Martin Sandy Martin Shadow Minister (Waste and Recycling)

I welcome the new Secretary of State to her place.

On 1 May, this House unanimously supported Labour’s declaration of an environment and climate emergency. The Center for International Environmental Law predicts that plastics will contribute to 13% of global carbon emissions by 2050 if no action is taken, yet the Government’s plans do not envisage that extended producer responsibility for packaging will come into force before 2023 or that a 75% recycling rate will be achieved before 2030. Does the Secretary of State accept that the emergency requires much faster action?

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