Submitted on Friday 26th February 2021
Rejected on Wednesday 12th May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban the use of plastic packaging for non-food and non-sterile products
Plastic packaging for anything other than food products and sterile products needs to be banned.
eg. Magazines, cards, notebooks, razors, toys, hardware, tools, stationery, candles, electronics & gadgets (chargers, earphones, cables) homeware etc...
A big reduction of plastic waste can be achieved, quickly, by banning plastic packaging for such products, as viable alternatives already exist.
Most plastics used for packaging can't be recycled, so we must avoid producing more than strictly necessary.
Wasted plastics break down into particles which end up polluting ecosystems and the internal organs of humans.
These manufacturers are still driving demand for new, non-recyclable plastic packaging, therefore government intervention is needed.
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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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Ban the use of plastic packaging for all non-food items: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/570065
Ban excess packaging (eg. plastic wrapped items within more plastic, multipacks): petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561755
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