Plastics: Marine Environment

(asked on 22nd July 2019) - 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 estimate he has made of the percentage of marine plastic pollution originating from the UK.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 30th July 2019

It is difficult to meaningfully estimate the proportion of plastic waste in the world’s ocean that originates from the UK.

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