A Bill to require manufacturers to fit microplastic-catching filters to new domestic and commercial washing machines; to make provision about the promotion of the use of microplastic-catching filters in washing machines and raising awareness about the consequences of microplastics from washing machines for pollution in rivers and seas; and for connected purposes.
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This Bill would require manufacturers to fit microplastic-catching filters to all new domestic and commercial washing machines. It also aims to promote the use of these filters and raise awareness of how microplastics from washing machines affect rivers and seas. The measure is currently at its second reading in the House of Commons.
The bill has completed its first and second readings in the Commons and remains at the second-reading stage, with further parliamentary stages required for it to progress.
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30 Nov 2021
6 May 2022
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
