Reducing Packaging

EDM number 1370 in 2006-07, proposed by David Howarth on 27/04/2007.

That this House notes with concern the excessive levels of packaging used by manufacturers and retailers; urges supermarkets to reduce packaging, to encourage the re-use of plastic bags, to recycle packaging waste and to encourage suppliers to reduce packaging further up the supply chain; and believes that, to further those objectives, retailers should be required to provide free of charge a collection point for any packaging materials sold or supplied by them and should be required to recycle them or safely to dispose of such materials.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs.