Submitted on Tuesday 14th September 2021
Rejected on Monday 20th September 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it a legal requirement for Food Manufacturers to use recyclable packaging
The packaging used by food companies for everyday household items such as biscuits and crisps are not recyclable, nor is made from recycled material. There needs to be a law to force food manufacturers to use recyclable packaging to package their foods to massively reduce waste to landfill.
In order to massively reduce carbon footprint and take a huge step towards helping our environment manufacturers need to use recyclable packaging. Every packet of biscuits and crisps found on supermarket shelves are not recyclable. Over 6 billion packets of biscuits are consumed in the UK alone every year. All of which end up in landfill. This is unacceptable and it must change ASAP
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the similar action:
Ban the use of virgin plastics in all packaging sold in the UK before 2023:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/586539
Require plastic food containers to contain a minimum percentage recycled plastic:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/596546
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