Plastics: Treaties
(asked on 17th July 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government what are their priorities in the negotiations on a UN plastics treaty due to conclude in December; and whether they plan to support a legally binding limit on the volume of plastics production.
Answered by
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 29th July 2024
The Government’s priority is to reach an agreement on an ambitious legally binding treaty covering the full life cycle of plastics by the end of 2024.
As a member of the High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution we support binding provisions to restrain and reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels.