FOI request (FOIR-712560290)

Single-Use Plastic Regulations

Requested Wed 07 May 2025
Responded Wed 14 May 2025

This request is made under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, under Regulation 5(1), which provides the right of access to environmental information held by public authorities.

Please provide the following information covering the period from 2020 to the present:

1. The number of inspections or compliance activities your authority has carried out in relation to single-use plastic regulations (for example bans on plastic straws, cutlery, polystyrene containers, and/or similar).

2. The number and type of enforcement actions (and no actions) taken. This may include warnings, fixed penalties, prosecutions, or other enforcement actions available to your authority.

3. Any local strategy, internal guidance, or policy documents used to monitor or enforce compliance.

4. Any complaints or reports of non-compliance received by your authority. Please kindly provide the number and the outcome.

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Response

Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.

Please contact East Sussex County Council, Trading Standards:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk