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1: Lord Blencathra (CON - Life peer) We have microplastics and increasing levels of hormones and other pharmaceuticals, as well as an increasing - Speech Link
2: None products;(b) prohibiting the use of plastics in sanitary products and wet wipes;(c) reducing the use of microplastics - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB - Life peer) problem; secondly, they act as filtration plants to remove road oils, grease, hydrocarbon pollutants and microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) recycled content because its destined end of life is to disappear completely in the soil, leaving no microplastics - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) We just have to do it.I spoke previously about how plastics, and microplastics in particular, will in - Speech Link
3: None When processed incorrectly they can be—they are not always—a source of microplastics and can contaminate - Speech Link
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1: Lord Grimstone of Boscobel (CON - Life peer) preventing pollution from shipping and co-operating on addressing marine litter, including plastics and microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) First, the compostable films break down in industrial composting conditions without leaving microplastics - Speech Link
2: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) There are fears that microplastics might inhibit the ability of our lungs to repair damage caused by - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) It just gets tiny and it gets everywhere, with quite damaging consequences.We now see that microplastics - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Where it is weak—regarding the harm done by microplastics, for example—there should be a clear incentive - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) floods with human sewage multiple times a week and also has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics - Speech Link
2: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB - Life peer) million hours, and this water, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, has claimed, brings huge quantities of microplastics - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) Plastics and microplastics, chemical fertiliser, run-offs from agriculture and, as we debated earlier - Speech Link
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1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) I frequently collect litter on our beaches and am horrified by the volume of plastics, microplastics - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) UK support for starting negotiations on a new global agreement to tackle marine plastic litter and microplastics - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) Microplastics and nurdles are too small to be picked up by our wonderful volunteers, but they still cause - Speech Link
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1: Rebecca Pow (CON - Taunton Deane) endanger wildlife.Furthermore, plastic that escapes into the environment will eventually break down into microplastics - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) Furthermore, plastic that escapes into the environment will eventually break down into microplastics, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Parminter (LDEM - Life peer) Written Answer to me that the Government are minded to ban oxo-degradables, which break down into tiny microplastics - Speech Link
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1: Hywel Williams (PC - Arfon) Minister can confirm today the protection of funding for Bangor University’s research into agricultural microplastics - Speech Link