Make a legal requirement for businesses and households to have recycling bins

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

As a student I have lived and worked in lots of different establishments, majority of which have not had facilities in which to recycle waste, this has resulted in lots of commonly recyclable things being sent to landfill. Making recycling facilities a legal requirement will better the environment.

While recycling rates have been increasing (40.4% up to 45.7% for UK total between 2010 and 2017), there's still lots of BMW sent to landfill (biodegradable municipal waste ie stuff that could be recycled). In 2017 this ammounted to 7.4 million tonnes, while this ammount does meet EU targets it is still too much. Resources are wasted recovering these recyclable materials from landfill and not all are recovered. Therefore ever waste producing establishment should by law have recycling facilities.

Why it was rejected

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

Make recycling compulsory in the UK

Timeline

30 Aug 2019	Petition opened for signatures
9 Sep 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 9 Sep 2019

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