Rejected petition Ban single-use plastic spoons when selling ice cream

Ban anywhere selling ice creams (including cafes, ice cream vans, take-aways, restaurants, pubs, shops, cinemas, theatres and events) from supplying them with a single-use plastic spoon. Instead, they can only supply a reusable spoon or a wooden spoon that is biodegradable.

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Single-use plastics, like ice cream spoons, account for over 40% of plastic waste. Single-use plastic ice cream spoons are like plastic straws. They end up binned or littering our towns and seafronts. These spoons then contribute to marine plastic pollution. One of the best ways to reduce marine plastic is to reduce single-use plastics. Ice cream sellers can provide a reusable spoon or wooden spoon for take-aways, still offering customers a choice for how they eat their ice cream.

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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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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Ban single use plastics and the unnecessary use of plastic packaging: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/552450

Introduce a levy on single-use disposable plastic: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/554035

We could accept a petition specifically banning hospitality venues from providing plastic cutlery, if that's something you want to happen.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 27 March 2021
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