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1: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) river pollution scandal from the highway run-off filling our rivers with a nightmarish cocktail of microplastics - Speech Link
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1: None under the sponsorship of the Lancet to get the best practice standards globally for examining microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) the level of contamination from new areas of concern, such as PFAS, pesticide contamination and microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) explore some of the new challenges that have come up, including better upstream water management, microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) With increasing knowledge of the health impacts of microplastics and nanoplastics, and children facing - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) It causes injury and death, enters the food chain as microplastics and adds further stress to ecosystems - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) These processes burn large amounts of fossil fuel, produce waste—including large quantities of the microplastics - Speech Link
2: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LD - Life peer) The treaty is expected to include targets on ocean plastic pollution, microplastics, product standards - Speech Link
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1: Lord Blencathra (Con - Life peer) in particular, is dangerous—not from the cigarettes themselves but from the filters, which have microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) Banning them will reduce plastic and microplastic pollution as well as the volume of microplastics entering - Speech Link
2: Baroness Redfern (Con - Life peer) It is imperative that action is taken to reduce the amount of microplastics entering our waterways and - Speech Link
3: None I note, for example, a recent interesting study that found that nanoplastics and microplastics were in - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) informs us that humans consume 5 grams of plastic a week—the equivalent of a credit card—with microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) discarded across the UK, which is a staggering amount.As they degrade very slowly, they release microplastics - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) The plastic ones in particular contain thousands of toxic substances, including microplastics and nanoplastics - Speech Link