Make it compulsory to indicate on labelling when goods have been air freighted.

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

20% of each household’s carbon footprint is food related but as a consumer it is difficult to know how impactful our food choices are. Having a clear indicator symbol on labels when fresh goods have been air freighted would be a great first step in ensuring we can make better environmental choices.

While it would be wonderful to have a more comprehensive label such as a Carbon Footprint traffic light system on foods, that would be very complex to calculate. Whereas having a simple ‘Air Freighted’ indicator would really help the public make an informed choice about the fresh produce they buy. It is not obvious at all which foods are imported by plane versus road or boat yet the carbon impact of air shipping is around 100 times that done by sea.

Why it was rejected

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

Manadatory labelling of any goods that are imported by air

Timeline

15 May 2019	Petition opened for signatures
13 Jun 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Jun 2019

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