Disposable Wipes: Plastics
(asked on 13th October 2023) - 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 legal mechanism her Department plans to use to ban wet wipes containing plastic.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 17th October 2023
Subject to consultation, the UK Government plans to legislate for the proposed ban on wet wipes containing plastic using powers under section 62(3) of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act (2008) and section 140 of the Environmental Protection Act (1990).