Plastics: Seas and Oceans

(asked on 15th 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, how many staff of his Department are responsible for dealing with reducing the levels of plastic in the oceans.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 20th December 2017

Given the various sources of plastic that ends up in the marine environment and the transboundary nature of the problem, Defra has a number of teams looking at how we can reduce levels of plastic in the oceans.

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