This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Ban all plastic straws in the UK
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Plastic straws take 500 years to decompose. The number of straws we use in the UK every day is unbelievable! We are calling on Theresa May to ban all plastic straws in the UK. The sea life continue to die from these plastic straws going into our oceans! Ban all plastic straws in the UK.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/215863
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