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Ban international shipping of all sizes from dumping anything into the sea.

Submitted on Thursday 16th March 2017

Rejected on Wednesday 29th March 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Ban international shipping of all sizes from dumping anything into the sea.

Petition Details

It is a huge embarrassment that this still occurs at all! Giant waste islands floating around the size of Texas?! We should be very ashamed of ourselves. And now they have decided that cancerous waste plastics are making there way into the food chain. This is very urgent.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

The UK Government and Parliament can't change international shipping law. You could ask the UK Government to work with the governments of other countries to make this change.

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