Make it a legal requirement for ALL plastic bags to be biodegradable

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Plastic bags contribute greatly towards harming the environment along with other factors by releasing toxic chemicals into soil as well as harming wildlife when they consume plastic. We can reduce the harm done to the environment by minimising the amount of plastic waste we produce.

Problems such as the ‘North Atlantic garbage patch’ are starting to become more prominent and problems like these are killing sea life as well as land animals with problems such as fly tipping, by misleading animals into thinking that the waste is food of their own.
Micro-plastics are now in our food chain due to contaminated soil which has been scientifically linked with health problems such as cancer.
People have dismissed the problems linked with plastics too much and we need to take action.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Ban plastic bags

Timeline

23 Apr 2019	Petition opened for signatures
13 May 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 May 2019

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