Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility Debate
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Jim Shannon
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Packaging: Extended Producer Responsibility
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Anna McMorrin
I completely agree and it is imperative that we in the UK take that action because it is our waste that is ending up on those pristine shores.
Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate; even at this late hour the importance of this issue cannot be underlined too strongly.
Local councils have a very important role to play, as has been said. My local council of Ards and North Down Borough Council, and Ards Borough Council before that, brought in the blue bin recycling project. It was extremely successful not just because the council brought it in, but educationally at school level where the children went home and said to their parents, “Let’s do the recycling.” So there are two ways of looking at this: through the councils but also through education.
Anna McMorrin
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but this needs to come from more than local councils; it needs to come from the Government as well, and that is what we are addressing here.