Rejected petition Ban all shops in the UK from selling plastic bags

We depend on plastic and now we are drowning in it. Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic gets dumped into our oceans. We have 12 years to make a change before it’s too late. Tens of thousands of whales, birds,seals and turtles are killed every year from plastic litter. We need to make a change

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/236735

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Date submitted 16 March 2019
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