{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/270815.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":270815,"parliament":{"period":"2017-2019","government":"Conservative","dissolution_at":"2019-11-06T00:01:00.000+00:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"End junk mail paper waste via Royal Mail","background":"How many trees have to be cut down to fill the demand for the millions of junk leaflets put through every door each week? Around 12-16 trees are required for a tonne of junk mail production, this means that with an average of 550,000 tonnes sent out each year in the UK, over 7.7m trees are wasted!","additional_details":"Royal Mail is making an estimated £184m a year by putting nearly 3 billion junk leaflets in the post.The Mail Preference Service, used by 6.5 million people a year, lets households opt out of receiving addressed junk letters, it does not stop junk mail. This is despite unaddressed mail accounting for around a third of all UK mail, according to Citizens Advice. \r\nThe climate disaster is being fuelled by greed at our expense, if there was a ban on junk mail, it would negate the need to recycle it.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":10,"created_at":"2019-08-28T12:54:30.310Z","updated_at":"2020-02-26T22:53:32.471Z","rejected_at":"2019-09-04T15:23:24.219Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2019-08-28T14:30:22.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"irrelevant","details":"We can't accept your petition because ending the Royal Mail leaflet distribution service would be a decision for Royal Mail and not the UK Government or Parliament.\r\n\r\nYou might want to sign this petition calling for a ban on junk mail instead:\r\n\r\nhttps://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/249527\r\n"},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}