NEWSPRINT RECYCLING

Early day motion 238, tabled 11 January 2000 by Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour). Signed by 43 members.

That this House congratulates the three UK newsprint manufacturers whose use of waste paper as a proportion of their newsprint production is now over 94 per cent. and who have increased their share of the domestic market for newsprint from 6 per cent. in 1982 to nearly 40 per cent. in 1999, and looks forward to further annual increases; believes that whilst calls for mandatory recycling targets on imported newsprint would appear to be of benefit to the environment, they may in certain circumstances be damaging to the environment overseas and be environmentally counter-productive; and further believes that mandatory recycling targets should be the subject of the widest possible environmental impact assessment.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Liberal Democrat 5, Labour/Co-operative 4, Conservative 2, UUP 2, Independent Labour 1.