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To: Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Ban single-use packaging in restaurants, cafés, and bars
Urgently ban ALL single-use packaging for eat-in sales at restaurants, cafés and bars to help tackle the current environmental, climate and plastic crises.
Why is this important?
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental issues we face. Yet in hundreds of thousands of cafés, bars and restaurants across the country, we’re still being served food and drink in single-use packaging – even when we’re eating in!
It’s wasteful, unnecessary and can easily be avoided by replacing single-use packaging with reusable cups, crockery and cutlery which get washed instead of thrown away after just one use.
With only 12% of Britain's plastic known to be recycled, it’s time to take single-use off the menu – for good.
This isn’t pie in the sky thinking or even a new idea. It’s how we always used to have our food served to us. And it's already law in neighbouring countries like France. If you walk into any food outlet in France, even fast-food restaurants like McDonalds, your food will now be served in ‘reusable packaging’ - usually just a plate and cutlery.
Since France introduced this in January 2023, it has been estimated that they are saving 180,000 tonnes of packaging every year! That’s nearly 1,000 blue whales or over 25,000 African elephants in weight!
The last government has already committed to removing all avoidable plastics by 2042. Yet despite this, they failed to even conduct a feasibility study for this ban here. With a new government in place, this is our opportunity to put the pressure on and demand they tackle single-use plastic waste as a priority.
It’s wasteful, unnecessary and can easily be avoided by replacing single-use packaging with reusable cups, crockery and cutlery which get washed instead of thrown away after just one use.
With only 12% of Britain's plastic known to be recycled, it’s time to take single-use off the menu – for good.
This isn’t pie in the sky thinking or even a new idea. It’s how we always used to have our food served to us. And it's already law in neighbouring countries like France. If you walk into any food outlet in France, even fast-food restaurants like McDonalds, your food will now be served in ‘reusable packaging’ - usually just a plate and cutlery.
Since France introduced this in January 2023, it has been estimated that they are saving 180,000 tonnes of packaging every year! That’s nearly 1,000 blue whales or over 25,000 African elephants in weight!
The last government has already committed to removing all avoidable plastics by 2042. Yet despite this, they failed to even conduct a feasibility study for this ban here. With a new government in place, this is our opportunity to put the pressure on and demand they tackle single-use plastic waste as a priority.
The good news is that this ban is one of the easiest and most obvious steps the government can take to tackle the plastic crisis.
Will you help put pressure on to make it happen?
Sign to tell our new government to ban single-use packaging in restaurants, cafés, and bars.
How it will be delivered
We will deliver the signatures to the government.
This petition is run by the plastic pollution campaigning organisation City to Sea.
City to Sea is an environmental charity, campaigning to stop plastic pollution at source. https://www.citytosea.org.uk/
