Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups and Plastic Bottles inquiry

Inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee, 14 September 2017 to 14 February 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 1st Report - Plastic Bottles: Turning Back the Plastic Tide (22 December 2017)
• 2nd Report - Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups (5 January 2018)
• 4th Special Report - Plastic bottles: Turning Back the Plastic Tide: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report (26 February 2018)
• 5th Special Report - Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups: Government’s Response to the Committee’s Second Report (9 March 2018)

Evidence sessions

• 10 October 2017: Richard Mcilwain, Deputy Chief Executive, Keep Britain Tidy, Gavin Ellis, Co-Founder, Hubbub Foundation UK, and Professor Wouter Poortinga, Professor of Environmental Psychology, Welsh School of Architecture; Oliver Rosevear, Energy and Environment Manager, Costa Coffee, Martin Kersh, Executive Director, Foodservice Packaging Association, Neill Whitall, Chair, The Paper Cup Recovery and Recyling Group, and Martin Myserscough, Founder and CEO, Frugalpac (at 11.00am).
• 17 October 2017: Fiona Llewellyn, Project Manager of One Less Campaign, One Less Campaign , Dr Sue Kinsey, Senior Pollution Policy Officer, Marine Conservation Society , Hugo Tagholm, Chief Executive, Surfers Against Sewage, and Derek Robertson, CEO, Keep Scotland Beautiful; Chris Sherrington, Head of Environmental Policy and Economics, EUNOMIA, Nick Brown, Head of Sustainability, Coca-Cola European Partners, John Mayhew, Director of The Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland (charity that spearheads have you got the bottle), and Sam Harding, Head of Litter Programme, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (at 11.00am).
• 24 October 2017: James Lowman, Chief Executive, Association of Convenience Stores, Alice Ellison, Head of Environment, British Retail Consortium , Barry Turner, Director of Plastics and Flexible Packaging, British Plastics Federation, and Gavin Partington, Director General, British Soft Drinks Association; Cllr David Simmonds CBE, LGA Vice-Chairman and Deputy Leader of the London Borough of Hillingdon, Lee Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee, and Jakob Rindegren, Recycling Policy Advisor, Environmental Services Association (at 11.00am).
• 31 October 2017: Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.