This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government

Rejected petition Prevent excessive paper waste by companies

Store tills should make printing a receipt optional as so many print automatically and are binned. Also, companies excessively put leaflets that go straight in the bin through front doors, there are so many other paper-free ways to market now that this is unnecessary.

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