This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Ban plastic straws from pubs, cafes, coffee places etc!
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Plastic straws are used for merely minutes or even seconds! Yet each straw takes 500 years to biodegrade!!!
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/210572
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