Rejected petition Force tobacco companies to make their cigarettes from biodegradable materials.

Cigarette butts are arguably the number one polluter of our oceans.

This is a petiton to bring in new legislation, forcing tobacco companies to manufacture their cigarettes using biodegradable materials only.

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In Brussels, on the 21st of April 2019, volunteers collected approximately 270,000 cigarette butts in just 3 hours. If that many cigarette butts can be found in a single city, how many could be found in all the oceans of our world?

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/262200

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Date submitted 27 June 2019
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