Motion text
That this House congratulates the environmental charity FIDRA, based in East Lothian, and Dr Becky Gait, her team and volunteers for their work to eliminate pollution by nurdle pellets used in the manufacture of plastics and for their work to encourage and require plastics producers, users, transporters and trade associations to introduce best practice in plastic pellet management called Operation Clean Sweep; notes that nurdle pellets attract and concentrate pollutants like DDT and PCBs to highly toxic levels; further notes that in a survey carried out by FIDRA volunteers in May 2018 on beaches in the Kingdom of Fife, 450,000 washed-up nurdles were collected in under two hours from one beach alone at North Queensferry; notes that this beach is less than 15 miles from the Ineos Polymers plant, and that unacceptable levels of nurdles are being detected on beaches as far west as Barra and as far north as Collieston in Aberdeenshire; and calls on the Government to to properly hold Ineos and the industry to account for this pollution and for strict enforcement action to be taken across the UK.
Signatures (17)
The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.
Whitfield, Martin
Labour
Signed on
4 June 2018
Gaffney, Hugh
Labour
Signed on
4 June 2018
Sobel, Alex
Labour
Signed on
4 June 2018
Jardine, Christine
Liberal Democrat
Signed on
4 June 2018
Murray, Ian
Labour
Signed on
5 June 2018
Shannon, Jim
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on
5 June 2018
In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.
Barron, Sir Kevin
Labour
Signed on
6 June 2018
Chapman, Douglas
Scottish National Party
Signed on
14 June 2018
Crausby, Sir David
Labour
Signed on
27 June 2018
Farron, Tim
Liberal Democrat
Signed on
5 June 2018
George, Ruth
Labour
Signed on
7 June 2018
Law, Chris
Scottish National Party
Signed on
11 June 2018
Linden, David
Scottish National Party
Signed on
12 June 2018
Mann, John
Labour
Signed on
2 July 2018
Martin, Sandy
Labour
Signed on
6 June 2018
Rimmer, Ms Marie
Labour
Signed on
13 June 2018
Turley, Anna
Labour
Signed on
13 June 2018
There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.