Question follow-through · 85492
Plastics: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the impact of the plastic waste export regime on recycling figures in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme, b) Staffordshire and c) England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the impact of the plastic waste export regime on recycling figures in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme, b) Staffordshire and c) England.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
Waste plastic can generally only be exported from the UK for recycling. Where the UK cannot currently recycle materials economically, including plastic waste collected in Newcastle Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and the wider country, exports can help ensure ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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