Electronic Goods: Sustainable Products

Baroness Parminter Excerpts

Tuesday 23rd February 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

My Lords, the noble Baroness has hit on some important points. One of the key features coming out of the work that WRAP is doing is that there is around a tonne of gold in landfill sites that comes from electronic equipment. We want to get a lot of these important materials back. These are all areas where innovative work will be done. Young people and the innovations that come through them will be tremendously important, so again I endorse what the noble Baroness is encouraging.

[Baroness Parminter (LD)]

My Lords, can the Minister update the House on progress on implementing the recommendations on individual producer responsibility for waste electrical goods made by the working group set up by BIS in 2012?