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To: The chair, board and owners of the club

Burnley football club: Ditch single use plastic

Please stop using single use plastic for all football matches and other events at the stadium

Why is this important?

By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in our seas. But Premier League football clubs still give out hundreds of thousands of single use plastic items every single matchday. Plastic cups, straws, stirrers, bags, they all end up clogging up our oceans and filling landfills.

Football supporters shouldn't be forced to contribute to plastic pollution, just because they want a drink or some food at a match.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an island of discarded plastic that is now triple the size of France.
Some organisms thrive off discarded plastic, forming a new type of ecosystem called a "plastisphere".
Scientists have found plastic bags at the bottom of the Mariana Trench 36,000 feet below sea level.
A glass bottle can take roughly one million years to degrade in the environment.
Every year 18 billlion pounds of plastic seeps into oceans from coasts.

Turf Moor, Burnley

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Updates

2019-01-11 18:51:27 +0000

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good Christmas and New year. I am going to start doing updates on a regular basis now as we are really taking off with the signitures. I am thank to all of you. Let's keep up the hard work

2018-12-15 20:35:40 +0000

I have created a facebook page where I will be sharing facts each day.if you would like to go over and take a look feel free. thank you all for your support. we can do this

2018-12-15 10:47:04 +0000

100 signatures reached

2018-12-14 17:56:50 +0000

We are currently on 66 signatures keep it up and welldone

2018-12-14 17:02:37 +0000

Going to contact my local radio station to see if I can get them to back me and help raise awareness of what plastic does to our environment and the animals

2018-12-14 16:49:44 +0000

Well done guys. Can we all share the petition? Once I have reached 1,000 I will be going to my local MP and the papers to get more signatures so we can get plastic out of the local football ground.

2018-12-14 16:46:20 +0000

50 signatures reached

2018-12-14 15:10:18 +0000

25 signatures reached

2018-12-14 14:45:09 +0000

10 signatures reached

2018-12-13 13:17:57 +0000

We need to try get as many signitures as possible so that I can take this to our local MP and papers