Submitted on Thursday 3rd September 2015
Rejected on Friday 4th September 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce Container Deposit Legislation to clean up our streets and open spaces.
Tons of litter consisting largely of plastic bottles and aluminium cans is dumped on our streets, roads and parks each year. It remains littering our streets - or costs councils millions of pounds to pick up.
The UK has one of the worst litter problems in Europe - Let's clean up our country.
Container deposit legislation has proven itself to be very effective elsewhere in Europe (Germany, Denmark, etc) and North America.
A 10p deposit on each item, eg: 15 items would be worth £1.50, is not a huge amount - but enough to make people think twice before littering and/or a sufficient incentive for someone to pick up such items.
Prices would not increase - as any deposit paid is refundable upon return.
This petition requests that the Government put a Bottle Bill before Parliament.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107099
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
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