Petition · past parliament

Implement sustainability labelling on food packaging

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

The food we eat has an impact on our planet as well as our health. But when we buy our food, we aren’t given any information about whether a product is bad for the environment or not. Food in the UK has nutritional information printed on it. So why not have sustainability information on it too?
There are many factors that affect how sustainable a food product is, meaning there are a variety of ways you could present this information to consumers. To give an idea of how food sustainability labelling might work, I have created 3 different designs that would help consumers make more well informed choices about the food they eat.

Designs and explanations of how they work can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/cw39hc/sustainability_labelling_for_food_packaging/

Why it was rejected

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

Timeline

27 Aug 2019 Petition opened for signatures
2 Sep 2019 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 2 Sep 2019

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.