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Require all takeaway food in fully recyclable containers/packaging

Submitted on Monday 20th May 2019

Rejected on Wednesday 5th June 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Require all takeaway food in fully recyclable containers/packaging

Petition Details

Many takeaway food containers are single use plastic tubs/pots. By making it a legal requirement to use only fully recyclable or biodegradable containers in all takeaway foods we could reduce plastic disposal.

Additional Information

There have been attempts to encourage food providers to reduce their plastic use but to no avail. Only legisis likely to force change on a wholesale scale


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This petition was rejected

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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