Government plan to ban disposable plastic cutlery

[adam2]

Sounds a good idea to me. An awful lot is used at present and then carelessly discarded in the countryside or into water courses.

There are times when disposable cutlery is appropriate, but wooden alternatives now exist. Even if not fully sustainable, the wooden items do eventually rot away or can be burnt with minimum pollution.

I doubt that the proposed ban will be very effective since it is only "single use" plastic cutlery that is to be banned. Simply label it "re-useable" but keep the price and quality low enough that most is still discarded.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58360064

[adam2]

The ban is now in force.
It remains to be seen how effective this will be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66974697

[Default0ptions]

The ban is now in force.
It remains to be seen how effective this will be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66974697

Waves a polystyrene container and a plastic fork at you.

It might have helped to work with fast food vendors a little bit earlier