Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 118704

Waste Disposal: Furniture

Tabled: 9 March 2026

Answered: 16 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Kerry McCarthy

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her department has made of the cost to local authorities of separating and incinerating waste upholstered domestic seating due to the presence of chemical flame retardant

Answer

Emma Hardy

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), to which the UK is party, requires that waste containing POPs above certain thresholds be destroyed, rather than landfilled. Research by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2021 revealed that wa...

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