Rejected petition Make cosmetics co's, takeaways & retailers stop using non-biodegradable plastic.

So much plastic ends up in our oceans. It absorbs toxic chemicals and is eaten by marine animals, that is if they don't choke on it or get caught in it. Let's stop it getting into the sea by not using it. Lets ask companies not to use it!

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Read about what is found on our beaches http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Reports+and+downloads

About little plastic beads in cosmetics
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/08/petition-urges-uk-government-to-ban-plastic-microbeads

And it's in what you eat
http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/feb/12/science-plastic-oceans-study-fish-pollution-worse

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131057

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Date submitted 6 June 2016
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