HC Deb 23 May 1972 vol 837 cc358-9W
Mr. Parkinson

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether the working party on the design, use, and disposal of metal containers to be set up by the Tin Box Manufacturers Federation on his initiative has started work.

Mr. Peter Walker

Yes: and officials of the Department of the Environment, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food are associated with it.

The working Party's terms of reference are:

  1. (a) to establish facts on the production, use and disposal of metal containers in relation to environmental matters;
  2. (b) to examine means of designing metal containers in a manner that will facilitate disposal or reclamation;
  3. (c) to examine means and practicability of reclaiming metal from containers;
  4. (d) in preparing its report, the Working Party will take into account the report of the Department of the Environment's Working Party on Refuse Disposal (April, 1971).