Submitted on Saturday 20th April 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal traffic light labelling for food products flown, shipped or UK-produced.
Traffic light system on all food packaging showing how the item has reached the shelf with Green representing domestic goods, Amber representing shipped goods and Red representing goods flown in.
Flying in goods is 100 times more polluting than shipping in goods.
Half UK food is imported. 1% of this is by air which accounts for 11% of carbon emissions. Since 1992 the amount of food flown in has risen by 140%.
Traffic light labelling would allow consumers to recognise and base purchases of goods from a nationally recognised standard indicating environmental impact.
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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/258720
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