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Unsustainable Packaging

Proceeding contribution from Anne Main (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 June 2019. It occurred during e-petition debate on Unsustainable Packaging.

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point about the packaging surrounding the goods we buy, but there are also the goods themselves. As the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on the prevention of plastic waste, I note that we have weaned ourselves off natural products and fibres and on to plasticised ones. Many of our clothes and carpets are polypropylene. We are wrapping plastic in plastic, and that is a real concern. Does he agree that we need to look at the whole big picture and have a shift back toward both more natural packaging, and more natural fibres within the packaging?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
662 c210WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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