Petition · past parliament
The goverment to stop paying exporters who send dirty plastic recycling aboard
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
Some recycling processers are not sorting the plastic waste that has collected from councils. And it is landing up in other countries, where is it left to rot as it is full of items that are unprocessable.We need U.K processors to be built so that it can be sorted here.
https://news.sky.com/video/dirty-secret-the-problem-of-sending-our-plastic-waste-abroad-11219737
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 19 May 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 18 Jun 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
18 Jun 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.