Petition Ban plastic fishing nets as they make 46% of the plastic waste in the ocean.

Recently in the uk and across the globe, plastic straws are being banned from many restraunts. But did you know that that straws make up under 1% of ocean waste, but fishing nets make up a huge 46%. So instead of discriminating special needs people who need straws to drink ban fishing nets!

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Date closed 31 January 2019
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