Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01535 · Session 4

Teach sustainability and ban disposable plastic bags

Closed Submitted 3 Sep 2014 Environment & Energy
Signatures
0
44 online signatures with a country
Comments
3
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to:
make teaching sustainability and the environment mandatory in secondary schools; and
ban all disposable plastic bags in supermarkets and shops to aid the environment.

What the petitioner did first

I have tried to encourage as many people as possible to use re-usable bags and inform about the harm they do to the environment. I am a member of my schools Eco Committee and we do a great to help reduce waste in this issue however the messages we put across and are being put across across the country is not getting through to the general public. I have also got in contact with my local MSP, Mr Kenny MacAskill to raise my concerns. He has replied to inform me about the work of the government already and I believe that this petition is the next step we must take to tackle these issues based upon what he has told me about.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 25 Nov 2014
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petition
    1 mention
  2. 17 Feb 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Current Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

44 online signatures
  1. Scotland37 84.1%
  2. United Kingdom4 9.1%
  3. Northern Ireland1 2.3%
  4. Albania1 2.3%
  5. Swaziland1 2.3%

Comments

3 comments, oldest first
  1. Kristiana Gotzsche Robertson 7 Oct 2014
    Great idea
    - Scandinavia did this when I was a child, over 30 years ago!
  2. Sophie Bigg 7 Oct 2014
    While sustainability is a cross-cutting theme and appears prominently in some schools' improvement plans, the same cannot be said for all schools and in many relevant subject courses the environment remains an optional topic.

    Banning plastic bags is a move some supermarkets have already taken and is a good start to make consumers think about their effect on the environment.
  3. Margaret Trevelyan 7 Oct 2014
    Sustainability is absolutely fundamental to our survival on this planet. It should infiltrate everything we do and everything we teach our children. It is that simple.