By Jonathan Bucks For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 00:04 BST, 19 May 2019 | Updated: 00:13 BST, 19 May 2019
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Tory peer John Selwyn Gummer is chairman of a firm that charges companies to use ‘meaningless’ and ‘misleading’ recycling symbols on their packaging.
The Green Dot logo appears on hundreds of supermarket products and is thought to boost sales, because environmentally friendly shoppers think it means that the product is recyclable.
But the symbol means only that the company has paid towards a recycling scheme, not that the product itself can be recycled.
The row is unwelcome news for John Selwyn Gummer, 79, who has been chairman of the independent Committee on Climate Change since 2012
And while the Green Dot scheme is used in dozens of countries across Europe, no such system exists in Britain. Companies only print the symbols on products that are also sold across the Continent.
Valpak, which regulates the logo in the UK and charges firms up to £295 to display it on their products, says in a
