Marine Litter

Baroness Jenkin of Kennington Excerpts

Thursday 14th April 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

My Lords, because this is a serious problem we are working at national level, Ospar level, EU level and international level through the G7 and, as I say, with overseas territories. There is a lot going on.

[Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con)]

My Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee of WRAP and a borderline obsessive when it comes to litter-picking, especially of plastic off beaches. Can my noble friend tell us how British products compare with those of the rest of the world?

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

My Lords, I think I am permitted to say that Unilever, Boots and Colgate-Palmolive have already phased out microbeads. The L’Oréal group will phase them out by 2017. There is a website which shows which products have microbeads. I very much encourage people to go for the microbead-free products.