England to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates from Oct

The move is part of a wider push to protect the environment by clamping down on waste that blights the countryside and oceans and by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the production and disposal of plastics. England uses 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery per year as well as 721 million single-use plates, but only 10% are recycled, according to Coffey's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

from News-Economic Times https://ift.tt/zfIW0xc