Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 71064

Waste Disposal: Ghana

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

LabourClapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether systems are in place to (a) record and (b) monitor the (i) tonnage, (ii) quality and (iii) composition of post-consumer textile exports from the UK to Ghana; and what evidence

Answer

Mary Creagh
Exporters of waste textiles must provide information on where the waste is being exported to, and the operation the waste will be subject to at its final destination. UK legislation requires that those involved in the shipments of textile waste take all n...

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