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Unsustainable Packaging

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

Some time ago, I had lunch with Eddie Stobart—I may have got this figure slightly wrong, because it was a long time ago that we had lunch—but I think he said that at any one time on the motorways he had 40 lorries carrying nothing but water. It is an extraordinary waste of energy making the bottles and, as the hon. Gentleman says, we have high-quality water in virtually every corner of this country. I have tried at different times to persuade the House authorities to use tap water, not bottled water. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we could make a small contribution by not having bottled water at our Committee meetings?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
662 c215WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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