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Introduce legislation that stipulates all consumer good packaging is recyclable.

Submitted on Friday 20th August 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 24th August 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Introduce legislation that stipulates all consumer good packaging is recyclable.

Petition Details

Introduce legislation that stipulates that all consumer goods packaging is either compostable or recyclable by 2030 or sooner.

The government should commit to its ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ and introduce legislation that requires manufacturers to package goods in a sustainable way.

Additional Information

The UK currently produces around 26m tonnes of waste each year and only around c.45% of this is recycled each year with other comparable European countries such as Germany and Austria recycling c.60%.

Current packaging materials and technology available can meet all the criteria for sustainable packaging. This will position UK well in working towards closed loop product cycles and a circular economy.


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This petition was rejected

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 think that the ask of your petition is covered by a petition we currently have open. You may like to sign the below petition:

Ban packaging that is not biodegradable or domestically recyclable
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/574939

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