Submitted on Monday 6th June 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 21st June 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make cosmetics co's, takeaways & retailers stop using non-biodegradable plastic.
So much plastic ends up in our oceans. It absorbs toxic chemicals and is eaten by marine animals, that is if they don't choke on it or get caught in it. Let's stop it getting into the sea by not using it. Lets ask companies not to use it!
Read about what is found on our beaches http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Reports+and+downloads
About little plastic beads in cosmetics
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/08/petition-urges-uk-government-to-ban-plastic-microbeads
And it's in what you eat
http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/feb/12/science-plastic-oceans-study-fish-pollution-worse
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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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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131057
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