Member

I note that the Minister spent some time trying to justify our continuing to manufacture wet wipes containing plastic, even though we are planning to ban them. I am afraid that does not really satisfy me. The Minister recently answered a Written Question from me on pesticides that we are manufacturing in the UK and that are illegal for use here but which we are still exporting. Surely we should be worrying about plastic fibres and all the damage they are doing wherever they are put in the world, with the acknowledgement that some of them may well come back to us one way or another. I note, for example, a recent interesting study that found that nanoplastics and microplastics were in radishes growing in the ground. Think about our imported food.