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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with toilet tissue manufacturers on (a) increasing the amount of recycled pulp used in that tissue and (b) investing in more sustainable alternatives to paper-based products.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with toilet tissue manufacturers on (a) increasing the amount of recycled pulp used in that tissue and (b) investing in more sustainable alternatives to paper-based products.
We have not had any discussions with toilet tissue manufacturers on increasing the amount of recycled pulp used in that tissue or investing in more sustainable alternatives to paper based products.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the public sector has the required IT infrastructure in place to enable a paperless society.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that the public sector has the required IT infrastructure in place to enable a paperless society.
The Government Digital Service works with departments across central government to build digital capability, develop and implement common tools and standards, and ensure government remains focused on the needs of end users when designing digital services.
The Local Digital Declaration is a set of principles and commitments by which central and local government will work together to share tools and best practice in order to help get more public services online.
Over 16 million customers now access their Personal Tax Account online; over 90% of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Association’s (DVLA) transactions (over 1 billion in 2017/18) are now completed online; and over 5.7 million people have used the voter registration digital service.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of sorting machines at recycling centres and their ability to distinguish between pieces of paper and flat pieces of plastic.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of sorting machines at recycling centres and their ability to distinguish between pieces of paper and flat pieces of plastic.
The Government has not carried out such an assessment. Well-managed sorting facilities are generally able to distinguish and sort paper and plastics effectively. The most recent data published on materials recycling facilities sorting shows that 97.9% of material sorted as paper in England in the third quarter of 2018 was target material, meaning just 2.1% was contamination, such as plastic.
I have today laid before Parliament, pursuant to Section 86 of the Climate Change Act 2008, the “State of the Estate in 2017-18”. This report describes the efficiency and sustainability of the Government’s Civil Estate and records the progress that Government has made since the previous year. In 2017-18 the...
I have today laid before Parliament, pursuant to Section 86 of the Climate Change Act 2008, the “State of the Estate in 2017-18”. This report describes the efficiency and sustainability of the Government’s Civil Estate and records the progress that Government has made since the previous year. In 2017-18 the...
My honourable friend the Minister for Implementation (Oliver Dowden) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I have today laid before Parliament, pursuant to Section 86 of the Climate Change Act 2008, the “State of the Estate in 2017-18”. This report describes the efficiency and sustainability of the Government’s Civil...
My honourable friend the Minister for Implementation (Oliver Dowden) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I have today laid before Parliament, pursuant to Section 86 of the Climate Change Act 2008, the “State of the Estate in 2017-18”. This report describes the efficiency and sustainability of the Government’s Civil...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to (a) ban the sale of unrecyclable wrapping paper or (b) introduce a tax on such products.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to (a) ban the sale of unrecyclable wrapping paper or (b) introduce a tax on such products.
We have no plans to ban “non-recyclable” wrapping paper. Retailers are encouraged to provide information on whether their wrapping paper can be recycled or whether it should be disposed of in residual waste.
Packaging materials, including wrapping paper sold with the product, are covered by the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations which place a legal obligation on businesses that make or use packaging to ensure that a proportion of the packaging they sell is recovered and recycled.
This creates an incentive for companies to use less packaging and to ensure that their packaging can be recycled at end of life as it will reduce their costs in complying with the Regulations.
We have committed to exploring changes to the packaging producer responsibility scheme. This will look at all aspects of the regime, including mechanisms to encourage increased recyclability. More detail will be announced in the Resources and Waste Strategy, which will be published shortly.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the available supply of UK-sourced virgin and waste wood that has been used for (a) wood panel manufacturing, (b) sawmill products, (c) paper manufacturing and (d) wood fuel in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the available supply of UK-sourced virgin and waste wood that has been used for (a) wood panel manufacturing, (b) sawmill products, (c) paper manufacturing and (d) wood fuel in each of the...
This data is published in Forestry Statistics 2018.
Table 1 | Inputs to Wood-based Panel Mills, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | |||||
Year | UK roundwood1 | Sawmill products | Imports2 | Recycled wood fibre3,4 | Total |
2013 | 1,263 | 1,709 | 0 | 853 | 3,825 |
2014 | 1,283 | 1,809 | 0 | 812 | 3,904 |
2015 | 1,334 | 1,687 | 17 | 852 | 3,890 |
2016 | 1,248 | 1,749 | 39 | 838 | 3,874 |
2017 | 1,059 | 1,726 | 22 | 923 | 3,730 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018),
based on data from: Wood Panel Industries Federation
Notes:
- UK roundwood derived from stemwood.
- Imports include roundwood, wood products and products from imported wood.
- Recycled wood fibre is wood fibre recovered from both pre- and post-consumer wood waste for use in woodbased panel production. It comprises wood originally grown in the UK and wood originally grown in forests outside the UK.
- Quantities are as delivered, with an assumed average moisture content of 25%. To convert to green tonnes (assuming moisture content of 52%), multiply by 1.56.
Table 2 | Inputs to Wood-based Panel Mills, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | |||||
Year | UK roundwood1 | Sawmill products | Imports2 | Recycled wood fibre3,4 | Total |
2013 | 1,263 | 1,709 | 0 | 853 | 3,825 |
2014 | 1,283 | 1,809 | 0 | 812 | 3,904 |
2015 | 1,334 | 1,687 | 17 | 852 | 3,890 |
2016 | 1,248 | 1,749 | 39 | 838 | 3,874 |
2017 | 1,059 | 1,726 | 22 | 923 | 3,730 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018), |
based on data from: Wood Panel Industries Federation |
Notes:
- UK roundwood derived from stemwood.
- Imports include roundwood, wood products and products from imported wood.
- Recycled wood fibre is wood fibre recovered from both pre- and post-consumer wood waste for use in woodbased panel production. It comprises wood originally grown in the UK and wood originally grown in forests outside the UK.
- Quantities are as delivered, with an assumed average moisture content of 25%. To convert to green tonnes (assuming moisture content of 52%), multiply by 1.56.
Table 3 Inputs for the integrated pulp & paper mills1, 2013-2017 | ||||
thousand green tonnes | ||||
Year | UK roundwood2 | Sawmill products | Total | |
2013 | 465 | 83 | 548 | |
2014 | 465 | 97 | 562 | |
2015 | 435 | 101 | 536 | |
2016 | 423 | 82 | 505 | |
2017 | 442 | 61 | 503 | |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018), | ||||
based on data from: UK Forest Products Association | ||||
Notes:
- Excludes inputs of recycled paper and cardboard. All inputs are softwood.
- UK roundwood derived from stemwood.
Table 4 | Inputs for woodfuel1, 2013-2017 | |||
Thousand green tonnes | ||||
Year | UK roundwood1,2 | Sawmill products3 | Recycled wood4,5,6 | Total |
2013 | 1,650 | 302 | 830 | 2,782 |
2014 | 1,900 | 439 | 1,340 | 3,679 |
2015 | 2,000 | 534 | 1,450 | 3,984 |
2016 | 1,950 | 624 | 1,550 | 4,124 |
2017 | 2,200 | 705 | 1,660 | 4,565 |
Source: Forestry Statistics 2018 (Forestry Commission, September 2018),
based on data from: industry surveys, industry associations, Wood Recyclers Association.
Notes:
- Woodfuel derived from stemwood. Includes estimates of roundwood use for biomass energy. The figures are estimated by the Expert Group on Timber and Trade Statistics, and make use of wood fuel data reported in the Private Sector Softwood Removals Survey.
- The apparent increase in woodfuel from 2016 to 2017 partially reflects a new estimate of the level of hardwood deliveries for woodfuel and should not be interpreted as an increase in a single year. This figure is currently under review.
- Material reported as sales/use for woodfuel by sawmills and round fencing manufacturers, but may have been used for other purposes.
- Post consumer recovered wood, comprising wood originally grown in the UK and wood originally grown in forests outside the UK.
- Figures for 2014 to 2017 relate to capacity, rather than consumption.
- Quantities are as delivered, with an assumed average moisture content of 25%. To convert to green tonnes (assuming moisture content of 52%), multiply by 1.56.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of paper by (a) Government Departments and (b) non-executive agencies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of paper by (a) Government Departments and (b) non-executive agencies.
The Greening Government Commitments (GGCs) require central Government Departments and their executive and non-executive agencies to improve their waste management by reducing the amount of waste going to landfill to less than 10%; continuing to reduce the overall amount of waste generated and increasing the proportion which is recycled; and reducing their paper use by at least 50% from a 2009/10 baseline.
Compared with the 2009/10 baseline, by 2015/16 Departments had reduced their overall waste by 27% and their paper consumption by 44%. The proportion of waste sent to landfill in 2015/16 had been reduced to 13% across Government. The target to increase recycling was introduced for the 2016/17 financial year, and this data will be published shortly in the 2016/17 Annual Report on the GGCs, along with 2016/17 figures for the other GGC goals.
Departments are responsible for making decisions about how to achieve these goals in line with the priorities of their own functions, but their performance is reported annually in the Annual Report on the GGCs. Defra and Cabinet Office Ministers follow up any significant issues with performance with individual Departments.
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have put down their names to speak in this debate. I declare my interest as a member of a local refuse collection authority.
The Question is about the ban by China on yang laji—or foreign garbage, as it may be translated—comprising 24 varieties...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have put down their names to speak in this debate. I declare my interest as a member of a local refuse collection authority.
The Question is about the ban by China on yang laji—or foreign garbage, as it may be translated—comprising 24 varieties...
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for bringing this timely debate to the House today following the announcement of the Chinese ban on imports of plastic and other waste. Regrettably, we have relied on China to deal with our waste for far too long—in fact, now for over 20...
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for bringing this timely debate to the House today following the announcement of the Chinese ban on imports of plastic and other waste. Regrettably, we have relied on China to deal with our waste for far too long—in fact, now for over 20...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Greaves on bringing forward this debate. It is not only topical but incredibly timely in view of the fact that the environment strategy was launched today.
My noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Redfern, have already mentioned the BBC programme “Blue Planet...
My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Greaves on bringing forward this debate. It is not only topical but incredibly timely in view of the fact that the environment strategy was launched today.
My noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Redfern, have already mentioned the BBC programme “Blue Planet...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, on securing this debate, and I draw attention to my interests set out on the register, including my work with the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and as an honorary vice-president of the Association of Drainage Authorities and the Rural Affairs...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, on securing this debate, and I draw attention to my interests set out on the register, including my work with the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and as an honorary vice-president of the Association of Drainage Authorities and the Rural Affairs...
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for bringing forward this topical and timely debate, which enables us to give immediate feedback on the Prime Minister’s speech today on the 25-year environment plan. Being an optimist, I had hoped for some concrete measures in the speech, but,...
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for bringing forward this topical and timely debate, which enables us to give immediate feedback on the Prime Minister’s speech today on the 25-year environment plan. Being an optimist, I had hoped for some concrete measures in the speech, but,...
My Lords, I am grateful to the House for allowing me a quick intervention in the gap.
I congratulate China on banning the export of waste. Why should it be the world dumping ground for this kind of waste? We should look after our own waste.
However, there are many other examples...
My Lords, I am grateful to the House for allowing me a quick intervention in the gap.
I congratulate China on banning the export of waste. Why should it be the world dumping ground for this kind of waste? We should look after our own waste.
However, there are many other examples...
My Lords, I, too, am grateful to my noble friend Lord Greaves for securing this timely debate. I declare an interest as a district councillor.
The ban that China has imposed is a wake-up call and requires urgent and sound legislation to ensure that we are not overwhelmed in a tide...
My Lords, I, too, am grateful to my noble friend Lord Greaves for securing this timely debate. I declare an interest as a district councillor.
The ban that China has imposed is a wake-up call and requires urgent and sound legislation to ensure that we are not overwhelmed in a tide...
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for tabling what has turned out to be a highly topical Question for Short Debate. There is clearly a need for an urgent response to the growing threat of waste mountains with the likelihood that the waste will...
My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for tabling what has turned out to be a highly topical Question for Short Debate. There is clearly a need for an urgent response to the growing threat of waste mountains with the likelihood that the waste will...
My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for securing this debate on the recent China waste restrictions. As a number of noble Lords have said, it is topical and timely following the launch today by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State of the...
My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for securing this debate on the recent China waste restrictions. As a number of noble Lords have said, it is topical and timely following the launch today by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State of the...
Lords question for short debate on what action they are taking following the Chinese ban on imports of plastic and other waste.
Lords question for short debate on what action they are taking following the Chinese ban on imports of plastic and other waste.
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Michael Gove) has today made the following statement.
On 1 January 2018 China imposed a ban on the import of certain types of waste including mixed paper and post-consumer plastics (plastics thrown away by consumers). In addition, some other types of waste, including...
My Right Hon Friend the Secretary of State (Michael Gove) has today made the following statement.
On 1 January 2018 China imposed a ban on the import of certain types of waste including mixed paper and post-consumer plastics (plastics thrown away by consumers). In addition, some other types of waste, including...
On 1 January 2018 China imposed a ban on the import of certain types of waste including mixed paper and post-consumer plastics (plastics thrown away by consumers). In addition, some other types of waste, including all other paper and plastics exports, will have to meet a reduced acceptable contamination level...
On 1 January 2018 China imposed a ban on the import of certain types of waste including mixed paper and post-consumer plastics (plastics thrown away by consumers). In addition, some other types of waste, including all other paper and plastics exports, will have to meet a reduced acceptable contamination level...