Submitted on Sunday 29th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 15th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Reduce plastic food packaging to save lives from Covid-19 and create less waste.
To put laws in place to immediately reduce any unnecessary packaging, particularly in supermarkets.
Covid-19 is thought to be spread on food packaging particularly plastics and metal where it can live for up to 3 days. By reducing packaging it could slow down the spread of the virus and mean that vulnerable people feel less anxious.
We have all seen that plastic is polluting our seas, killing fish, turtles and other sea creatures. It also uses large amounts of carbon to create plastic and metal packaging which is often single use.
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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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300152
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