Submitted on Sunday 26th May 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 25th June 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce a plastic tax to encourage companies to use biodegradable alternatives
There are many environmentally friendly, biodegradable packaging solutions which can be used as an alternative to plastic. Yet most companies will never switch to these whilst plastic remains the cheaper option. Only when it's cheaper to be sustainable will companies initiate change.
Plastic is destroying our planet and ruining our oceans. A tax on plastic packaging will make using plastic a more expensive option that used environmentally friendly alternatives.
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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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