Plastics: China

(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to mitigate the potential effect on the amount of plastic waste in the UK of the coming into force of restrictions imposed by China limiting the import into that country of such waste.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 8th January 2018

The Secretary of State set out the Government’s position in a Written Ministerial Statement on 08 January:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-01-08/HCWS391

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