Submitted on Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 24th July 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban exporting plastic waste outside of the UK and treat our plastic waste in UK.
Recent TV programs have made the public aware of the reasons why China banned the import of waste from the UK.
Illegal dump sites and burning of plastic waste.
Biffa is a company that seemingly is still doing this.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference!
https://inews.co.uk/news/business/biffa-unsorted-rubbish-china-conviction-nappies-condoms/?fbclid=IwAR0WdgdwLVBiAN2_k1zfS260_gpajdm5k_4cXrynJw28JJHIkrR0Uge6Fz0
UK councils have refused to create their own plastic waste processing plants and have chosen to export their plastic waste problems.
As a civilised country we should NOT shove our plastic waste / problems onto less developed countries and then blame them when OUR plastic waste pollutes the oceans.
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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/264282
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