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Sustainable Consumption and Production: Avoidable Single-Use Plastics

Meeting: 17/07/2024 - Greater Manchester Waste & Recycling Committee (Item 16.)

16. Sustainable Consumption and Production: Avoidable Single-Use Plastics pdf icon PDF 348 KB

Report of Michelle Lynch, Sustainable Consumption and Production Lead Programme Manager, GMCA Environment Directorate attached.

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Decision:

Resolved/-

 

1.    That the progress of the key areas of activities currently being undertaken as part of the Single-Use Plastic Work Programme be noted.

2.    That officers include the request for resource and support from government on single use plastics in their letter to the secretary of state.

3.    That the single use plastic e-learning module be shared with members of the committee and members of the GM Green City Region Partnership be agreed.

4.    That a letter be sent to the Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on behalf of the committee requesting the promotion and dissemination of national government direction, good practise and initiatives on single use plastics to schools going forwards be agreed.