The UK government has confirmed a ban on the supply of plastic straws starting next April. We spoke to the two leading paper straw makers supplying McDonald’s in the UK and Ireland.
In England, it is estimated that 4.7 billion plastic straws, 316 million plastic stirrers and 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds are used annually. In fact, 95% of straws are still thought to be plastic. Cleaning up this litter is a costly task that could be avoided if plastic straws were banned. The final straw Following…
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