Petition · past parliament
Fund a campaign promoting hemp farming + the use of biodegradable hemp packaging
Closed
37 signatures
What the petition asks
For those of you that don't know hemp farming in the UK is legal under licence, thus making hemp products legal, hemp plastic is 100% biodegradable, when exposed to the elements and has a long lasting in shop on shelf lifespan, normal plastic even when broken down never really goes away.
Normal plastic when broken down to micro fragments often ends up in the ocean being eaten by krill and other sea creatures working it's way up the food chain, every year it's estimated we (humans) eat 11000 micro fragments of plastic every year coming from seafood, plastic is in our food chain this needs to change. We absorb fewer than 1% but they will still accumulate in the body over time Let's stop killing our oceans Hemp has an endless amount of uses Fuel building Materials, so much more.
Timeline
| 20 Oct 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 20 Apr 2018 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
37
Status
Closed
Opened
20 Oct 2017
Closed
20 Apr 2018
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