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Plastics: Treaties

Asked by Dr Simon OpherLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 5 February 2025UIN 27464

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support the introduction of a binding global target to cut all forms of primary plastic polymer production.

Answered by Emma Hardy

The UK supports a global target on the sustainable production of primary plastic polymers. Last year, at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a treaty to end plastic pollution, the UK endorsed a statement calling for all countries to commit to achieving sustainable levels of primary plastic production and for a global target.

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