Question follow-through · 7683

Mobile Phones: Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the potential environmental impact of mobile phones going to landfill.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 7 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 9 Oct 2024
Answer: 17 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the potential environmental impact of mobile phones going to landfill.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Oct 2024
Answer published
No assessment has been made of the environmental impacts of mobile phones going to landfill.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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