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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to tax disposable plastic carrier bags to recreate the effect of the Irish 'plastax', reducing dependence on foreign fossil fuel supplies, reducing carbon emissions and reducing the volume of landfill waste and litter in our towns and cities.
Submitted by Mark Richardson – Deadline to sign up by: 21 January 2007 – Signatures: 162
Petition update, 30 January 2007
You recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "tax disposable plastic carrier bags to recreate the effect of the Irish 'plastax', reducing dependence on foreign fossil fuel supplies, reducing carbon emissions and reducing the volume of landfill waste and litter in our towns and cities."The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page10873.asp
Prime Minister's Office
Current signatories
Mark Richardson, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Phil Bitis
- David Ross
- A Jones
- Dominic Dudley
- bob rayner
- Michelle Clarke
- Alex Ross
- Edward Tomlin
- Patrick Byrne
- Helen Cooper
- Katherine Jane Wilson
- Paul Speller
- Helen Bond
- Keith Garrett
- Donna Askew
- Julian King
- Rachel Coleman Finch
- Jon Wyatt
- Lynda Grove
- andrew johnson
- matthew sidford
- Lizzie Wright
- Josie Huddleston
- leanne conway
- Elizabeth Locke
- Alison Way
- Hannah Brock
- Michael Mallon
- Kate Hofman
- Carina Ching
- Isabelle Smedley
- Jo Wallis
- Amy Mycock
- lauren billington
- Benjamin Cornish
- William Wilson
- Laura Barker
- Francesca Bennett
- Andrew Steer
- Samuel Wilson
- Clare Cummings
- Tony Buchanan
- Helen Standing
- Ellie Crouch
- Alistair Buchanan Smith
- jo abbess
- Kevin McAllister
- Lan Rachel Bagott
- Chloe Karpinskyj
- Sean Kelly
- Margaret King
- D Viesnik
- Mrs Barbara Liberty
- Tim Ashmore
- Katie Yardley
- Ceri Thomas
- Andrew Abbott
- Jan Daly
- Pat Mathewson
- Mary Cooper
- Rhiannon Horsley
- Daniel Knibb
- Graham Gallop
- Ian Smith
- Louisa Radice
- Alan Pearson
- Mrs Joanna Chapman
- Sue Chantrey
- ian charles
- Kathryn Gulliver
- Andrew Lockett
- joseph anthony fowkes
- Jen Walsh
- Stevie B
- Shelagh Day
- Matthew Elphinstone-Walker
- Scarlett Brannan
- Melissa Cogzell
- Ben George
- Peter Riches
- joseph smallwood
- Mark Openshaw
- Vita Millers
- Nicholas Marsden
- Laura Holmes
- Daniel Roberts
- karoline east
- chiara bettonagli
- Tara John
- Fiona McMurray
- Vexen Crabtree
- Jennifer Maghzal
- Francesco Sciacca
- Andra East
- Sally Turner
- Chris Marshall
- Charlie Bird
- R Gunson
- Teresa Isherwood
- Gillian Craig
- Stephen Spackman
- Laura Pearce
- John Willis
- Lesley Cryer
- Shilpa Shah
- Dennis North
- Mike Shaw
- Stephen De Nobrega
- Claire Clarkson
- alex
- sue pethybridge
- Chantal Ellam
- Anne Hollyfield-Hesford
- Sarah Bailey
- john kirkham
- Claire Simmons
- Martin Grimshaw
- Judith Macaulay
- Sue Simmons
- Edward P Alway
- David Robinson
- james Milroy
- Katherine Aldred
- Nicolle Kerremans
- Chris Weldon
- Malcolm Watkinson
- Hannah Ayre
- Emma Pearce
- Stephan Hoenig
- Mike Gould
- Caroline Embleton
- Luke Espin
- Maureen Rowcliffe-Quarry
- Martha Searle
- Charlotte bailey
- Rachel Cushing
- Adrian Scott
- L Garbutt
- Jenny Stafford
- Kate Torode
- shay boyfield
- Laura Parkhill
- Andrew Collins
- Joanna Wilding
- Richard Merry
- Simon Tibbitts
- Derek R Allum
- Marcus Tucker
- Mark Jones
- Anthony G Connor
- Pam Maris
- John Maris
- Daniel Worley
- KIRSTY JACQUES
- Gail Crowe
- Jessica Chivers
- Imogen Tompsett
- Robin Green
- Diane Redhead
- Caroline Miller
- Hugh Cobbett
