Tobacco: Waste

(asked on 23rd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the environmental effect of cigarette waste; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Thérèse Coffey Portrait
Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 1st February 2018

Smoking related litter is considered to be litter and the Government has made no particular assessment of its environmental effect.

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