Submitted on Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 7th August 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Stop using developing countries as dumping grounds for UK clinical waste!
Recently Sri Lanka Customs shed light on a consignment of industrial and clinical waste that was imported from the United Kingdom. Reportedly, there had been 102 containers of clinical waste items (contaminated with blood, urine and feces).
According to Sri Lanka’s Central Environmental Authority (CEA) this has inflicted a massive threat of environmental pollution within the country not to mention the detriment to the good health of its population, particularly given the lack of technology nor resources in Sri Lanka to appropriately or suitably dispose of waste. I’m writing to you therefore, to express our great concern as Sri Lankans. I question the ethicality and morality of this practice on the part a nation such as the United Kingdom, considered and reputed as developed and advanced. As a resident of the UK I am well aware that it has the necessary means to dispose of its own waste without inflicting harm on the people and environment of struggling, developing nations.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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You could start a new petition asking for higher penalties for illegal waste exports, if that's what you'd like to see happen.
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