Starting from October, England will prohibit plastic plates, cutlery and other single-use plastic items. “It is a step in the right direction,” said Nina Schrank, a senior campaigner for Greenpeace U.K. “But it is a small step.”
England uses an estimated 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery and 721 million single-use plates per year, of which only 10 percent gets recycled.
Rebecca Pow, an environment minister, said in a statement, “Plastic is a scourge which blights our streets and beautiful countryside, and I am determined that we shift away from a single-use culture.”
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Source: Department for environment food and rural affairs