Prevent plastic pollution - Stop selling comics and magazines that have cheap plastic toys

Prevent plastic pollution - Stop selling comics and magazines that have cheap plastic toys

Started
19 January 2021
Petition to
Ken Murphy (CEO of Tesco)
Signatures: 66,925Next Goal: 75,000
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Started by Hannah Neville

You may have seen - plastic pollution is a big problem. 
Plastic waste is choking our rivers, our oceans, our streets and our cities - and it’s even impacting our global climate. 


Yet crazily, at a time when we need to be reducing the plastic used and produced, over half a billion plastic items come each year from one small, unheard of source - kids magazines. We love the magazines but we don't want or need the cheap plastic rubbish that comes with them. If the magazines and comics are good quality they don't need the toys - stop giving away plastic tat.


My name is Skye Neville - I’m 12 years old, and you may remember me from the news last year, when my campaign to get plastic toys off magazines got the attention of supermarkets and publishers across the UK.
I got a great result - Waitrose committed to stop selling magazines with plastic toys.

Tesco were also incredibly close to doing the same, in fact they were so close they wrote a press release, which was even reported in a few articles  https://www.betterretailing.com/newspapers-magazines/exclusive-tesco-follows-waitrose-in-banning-single-use-plastics-from-magazines/ 

But sadly Tesco lost their nerve and change never came - absolutely nothing has changed and the magazines are still covered in plastic tat.

This is why I'm campaigning for Tesco to stop selling comics and magazines that have cheap plastic tat, once and for all.

Please show your support by signing my petition - we can do this!!

For more information about the Kids Against Plastic tat campaign, please visit https://www.kidsagainstplastic.co.uk/do/kaptat/ 

 

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  • Ken MurphyCEO of Tesco