Petition Review UK material recycling infrastructure in order to decrease packaging waste

With China/far east now refusing to take our waste packaging, this will be returning to the UK. Currently the country recycling is done by region/council and capabilities vary wildly. This needs to be reviewed and consideration of a central facility with more recycling possibilities & effectiveness.

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Each council can determine what they recycle.
Not enough variance of materials can be recycled - causing difficulty with recycling logos.
increases available post consumer recycled content for manufacturers to use.

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

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Date closed 6 November 2019
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