Petition for 10p tax on plastic bags
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People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or strewn across the British countryside. People are becoming increasingly aware that we need to reduce our use of plastic bags.
In Ireland, a tax of 15cents per bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros which was spent on environmental projects. Bangladesh has banned polythene bags altogether while Taiwan and Singapore are taking steps to discourage their use.
This petition was started on 24th July 2007. We aimed to get 10,000 signatures, which we achieved on 18th September. Letters about the petition were sent to Hilary Benn, the Chancellor and the Prime Minister. We are still keen to get more signatures to show the amount of public feeling on this issue. For press enquiries, please see this press release.
Please take a moment to sign the petition below to introduce a similar tax (to be spent on environmental projects) of 10p per bag in Britain. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. We have created a document version of the petition here, and we would be massively grateful if you could spend an hour or so in your local shopping centre, social club or place of worship to get some signatures. If you would like to tell your friends about this petition, please use this email.
People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or strewn across the British countryside. People are becoming increasingly aware that we need to reduce our use of plastic bags.
In Ireland, a tax of 15cents per bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros which was spent on environmental projects. Bangladesh has banned polythene bags altogether while Taiwan and Singapore are taking steps to discourage their use.
This petition was started on 24th July 2007. We aimed to get 10,000 signatures, which we achieved on 18th September. Letters about the petition were sent to Hilary Benn, the Chancellor and the Prime Minister. We are still keen to get more signatures to show the amount of public feeling on this issue. For press enquiries, please see this press release.
Please take a moment to sign the petition below to introduce a similar tax (to be spent on environmental projects) of 10p per bag in Britain. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. We have created a document version of the petition here, and we would be massively grateful if you could spend an hour or so in your local shopping centre, social club or place of worship to get some signatures. If you would like to tell your friends about this petition, please use this email.
We, the undersigned, call on the British government to introduce a tax of 10p on each plastic bag issued, to be spent explicitly on environmental projects.
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