This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition All Plastic Packaging to be classified as Toxic Waste.
Millions of tons of packaging plastic end up in our oceans killing billions of sea life creatures & sea birds. Additionally Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in many food & drink packaging plastics is proposed to have an estrogenic activity in the human endocrine system. Plastic is Toxic.
More details
PCB effects study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1480489/
Plastic in our oceans
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/what-we-do/oceans/plastics/
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
We can't accept your petition because we aren't sure what action you would like the UK Government or Parliament to take. It's not clear how you would like plastic to be treated differently.
The UK doesn't classify waste as "toxic". Some waste is defined as hazardous. This is subject to different waste labelling rules and may require certain special disposal depending on its nature:
https://www.gov.uk/how-to-classify-different-types-of-waste
You could start a new petition setting out clearly what rules you think there should be around the disposal of plastic waste.
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