Rejected petition Make all shops provide paper carrier bags instead of plastic

In the effort to reduce plastic consumption, all shops should be made to provide paper carrier bags for their products. Doing this would drastically reduce plastic bag wastage as paper bags can easily be recycled.

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

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Date submitted 29 April 2019
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