Rejected petition The goverment to stop paying exporters who send dirty plastic recycling aboard

Some recycling processers are not sorting the plastic waste that has collected from councils. And it is landing up in other countries, where is it left to rot as it is full of items that are unprocessable.We need U.K processors to be built so that it can be sorted here.

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https://news.sky.com/video/dirty-secret-the-problem-of-sending-our-plastic-waste-abroad-11219737

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/237253

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Date submitted 19 May 2019
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