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Reducing Plastic Bag Usage

Submitted on Tuesday 19th February 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

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Reducing Plastic Bag Usage

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Currently, around 12.2 billion plastic bags are given free to the UK public each year. These plastic bags take up to 1000 years to decompose. It is currently estimated that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic in each square mile of ocean. This has contributed to the 1 million sea birds and 100,000 sea animals being killed every year by waste in the sea. Also plastic bags have currently used 0.2% of the worlds oil.

We want to raise awareness of the damage caused by plastic bags to the environment and to us in the future.


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