Hazardous Substances: Waste Disposal

(asked on 26th June 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the implications for its policies of the report entitled Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes on his mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 5 September 2017.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 29th June 2023

Since the report was published in 2017 we have published a Resources and Waste Strategy which sets out how we will preserve material resources by minimising waste, promoting resource efficiency and moving towards a circular economy in England. We are also developing a cross-government Chemicals Strategy to frame the work we are doing across chemicals to put us on a path for improved chemicals management. This Strategy will set out our priorities and principles for taking regulatory action to protect human health and the environment. Meanwhile, the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP), published earlier this year, sets out how we will tackle pollution in the air, in our waters, and on land, setting ambitious new targets across the board to improve the environment while also improving people’s health and quality of life.

In the development of these strategies and the EIP, and in delivering on the policies they set out, the Government consults widely with stakeholders and considers a wide array of information sources to ensure our policy making is robust and that we are upholding our obligations, including on human rights.

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