The percentage of woodland cover in the UK remains at 13 per cent, with 10 per cent in England, 15 per cent in Wales, 19 per cent in Scotland and 8 per cent in Northern Ireland. The tree planting is increasingly important in the fight against climate change, with around 9.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide being removed from the atmosphere by Scottish forests.

Single-use plastic bags have been eliminated in supermarkets and reduced a lot of plastic waste. Single-use plastic overshoes create unnecessary plastic waste that pollutes our environment.

Almost all (if not all) confectionery packaging is not recyclable today adding to the waste sent to landfill. This is crazy considering a lot of the main confectionery products used to be sold in recyclable packaging until recently. For example, Dairy Milk bars (Cadbury), Galaxy bars (Mars), Kit Kats (Nestle) all used to be in foil and paper until relatively recently, which could be recycled. Today all those bars are in plastic, the non-recyclable kind. Please sign the petition so we can show the big confectionery companies that their packaging matters and they actually need to return to their old packaging methods and expend that across their whole ranges.

We are in the mist of a climate emergency. We have little time to act and we have to make it easier for the consumers to make educated decisions on purchases. Currently we are still seeing a lot of businesses confusing or creating doubt about their products. This is not acceptable.

Thousands of residents across the borough are routinely run roughshod over, treated as problems that make council officers' lives harder. But we are why they are here, why they have jobs in the first place. These are our homes, and it is not right to come to someone's home and start destroying it without even having a conversation first.

Plastic is extremely damaging for the environment. This is from the production of the bag to its lifespan. Tesco's sold over 1 billion bags for life with many consumers using these as 'single use' bags. Therefore I would like Tesco's to replace their bags with biodegradable potato starch bags. This would have a massive effect on the environment.

This is bad for the people of Easr Kilbride. It will cause huge damage to the environment and the increase in traffic will harm the health of the children in the area.

To save the planet

Reusable alternatives are easier to use than ever and the mountain of waste created by just one baby in disposables is shocking. They take far too long to break down and are clogging our rivers and waterways. I'm asking the government to provide vouchers to pregnant women to enable everyone to try cloth nappies. Even using them part time can make a huge difference. Some councils currently offer help, but it's not nationwide and many people don't even know the help is available.

Single use plastic is a big topic at the moment and eliminating it completely is going to be a massive job. However there are some completely unnecessary uses still about in supermarkets! It should at the very least cost me the same to buy 4 single tins as it does to buy a pack of 4! It’s clearly cheaper to produce single tins as the cost of packaging is less so why does it cost the consumer more to be plastic free?

It will stop plastic, and help the environment as more people will bring their own re usable bags.

The over-use of plastic packaging and it’s subsequent damage to the environment is increasingly becoming the centre of media attention as time runs out to reverse the damage we have done to our planet. There is an extreme over-use of plastic in Amazon packaging which needs to be addressed; as a leading company in international shipping, action by Amazon WILL be followed by other companies.