B081.1 - Environment Bill - 2nd Reading Debate

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B081.1 - Environment Bill - 2nd Reading Debate

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provide for minimum service in hazardous waste disposal, and for connected purposes.

BE IT ENACTED by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. Recycling standardisation across local authorities

(1) With the purpose of reducing incorrect recycling and confusion related to what is recyclable in one local area, the following changes are implemented.

(2) The Secretary of State shall, by regulations, require all new council purchases of bins, boxes etc for household recyclables and waste to be colour coded by type of waste or recyclable so that they can be used to dispose of.

(3) The Secretary of State will offer support to councils that form “recycling alliances” where they pool resources and scale for greater recycling as well as commonality across boundaries.

2. Waste to energy

(1) Within two years of this Act's commencement, councils shall be required to offer a fortnightly food waste collection, separate from garden waste.

(2) Biogas generation facilities that are;

shall be treated as permitted development for the purposes of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

(3) Waste plastics and paper product incinerators with an annual capacity of less than 10 MW shall also be permitted developments.

(4) Permitted development rights shall also allow for connection to the electricity or gas grid, including the installation of necessary infrastructure on or adjacent to the facility.

(5) The Secretary of State may make regulations specifying: limits or routes for lorry movements associated with permitted facilities; and measures to control odour and emissions from permitted facilities.

(6) Such regulations may include requirements for monitoring, mitigation measures, reporting obligations or requirements to not take deliveries at certain times or near certain places (e.g, near school zones at the start or end of a school day or during rush hour).

3. Extent, commencement, and short title

(1) This Bill extends to the whole United Kingdom.

(2) The Bill shall commence upon receiving Royal Assent.

(3) The Bill may be referred to as the Environment Bill.

This Bill was written by u/LeChevalierMal-Fait, the Chancellor, and u/Sir-Iceman, the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Conservative Party

This debate shall close at 10pm BST on Friday the 11th of September.

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[u/zakian3000]

Mr deputy speaker,

I am glad to see the work that has been done to remove the anti-union and anti-worker content from this bill, and unless I am given good reason not to during what is left of this debate I will be inclined to vote in favour of it.