Mark Pritchard – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Pritchard on 2015-12-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold discussions with cruise ship operators on reducing the amount of food waste generated by cruise ships.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government is in favour of reducing waste at source and supports efforts in the cruise ship sector to reduce, reuse and recycle waste including food waste.

Such efforts are best led by the industry themselves in the first instance and officials are engaged with the cruise sector trade association over their work to improve the handling of wastes including food wastes.