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Microplastics: USA

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 65314, tabled on 23 February 2017

Question

Sarah Olney
Liberal Democrat
Richmond Park
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the decision to ban microbeads by the US.

Answer

Dr Thérèse Coffey
Conservative
Suffolk Coastal
Commons

Answered on

28 February 2017

The US ban has not yet come into force but we will continue to monitor its progress

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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