Submitted on Wednesday 28th February 2018
Rejected on Tuesday 6th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban or heavily tax all non-recyclable/non-compostable packaging in the UK
Major retailers are using non recyclable plastics despite low cost alternatives being available. Only a complete ban or heavy tax of 50%+ will make the supermarket and industry take action and use many of the available sustainabile alternatives.
The UK fails to recycle over 1.5 million tonnes of plastic packaging waste each year and now with China not accepting our recycled waste this will increase.
Creating packaging that our society cannot deal with is unsustainable. We urgently need 100% recyclable/ compostable packaging on all products and in particular items like fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets.
Taxing non recyclable plastics at the same rate as alcohol, tobacco or petrol will drive ethical sourcing behaviours.
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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/208709
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