Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ban plastic netting around single food items.

Closed 47 signatures

What the petition asks

Ban plastic netting around single food items.
It is understandable that plastic netting may be used to keep multiple food items together, but the netting on single items seems superfluous. There seems no purpose for doing such -- plastic netting provides no protection, and product information could be added in other ways. The purpose of a ban would be to remove this unnecessary use of plastic netting as an attempt to reduce the environmental costs of this plastic -- for example in production and in disposal.

Timeline

11 Sep 2023 Petition opened for signatures
11 Mar 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 47
Status Closed
Department Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened 11 Sep 2023
Closed 11 Mar 2024

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