Rejected petition Ban all disposable single use face masks (apart from medical use)

In the U.K. (as of November 2020) we discard and send to landfill 53 million single use plastic face masks every single day.

The environmental impact of this is massive.

Every day single use face masks are dropped on the street, blown in to streams and rivers and end up I our oceans.

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We want the Government to ban single use face masks full stop!

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.

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You might like to sign the following petition:

Ban the sale of disposable face masks to the general public
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549832

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Date submitted 19 November 2020
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