Rejected petition Ensure that more plastics used in food productive and industry can be recycled.

Rejected on 9 January 2018

So much food packaging states that it cannot be recycled or that particular plastics are not yet recyclable. The UK produces 170 million tonnes of waste a year. The Government should do more to ensure that companies only make products using recyclable packaging.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200189

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