Plastics 2020 Challenge
EDM number 1819 in 2008-09, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 06/07/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Waste management.
That this House notes the launch of the Plastics 2020 Challenge; congratulates the British Plastics Federation, the Packaging and Films Association and Plastics Europe on joining together to initiate a campaign to divert plastics from UK landfill by 2020, to reduce the climate change impact of plastics disposal and to address the UK's energy deficit; welcomes the commitment to double the rate of plastic packaging recycling by 2020; further notes that the UK plastics industry's exports are worth £4.6 billion a year and that the UK remains dominant in worldwide markets; and encourages the Government to work closely with the organisers of the Challenge to ensure that diversion of plastics from landfill can be achieved by 2020.
This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.
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