Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 31459
Microplastics: Washing Machines
Tabled: 13 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025
Question
Sarah Champion
Labour — Rotherham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help prevent microplastics entering nature from washing machines.
Answer
Emma HardyThe Government is concerned about the possible risks to public health and wildlife from microplastics which enter the environment from the atmosphere and road runoff and from washing machines. Previous collaborative work with the water industry found that...
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