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England to ban single-use plastic cutlery and plates [boingboing.net]:

Kiss goodbye to the flexible, easily-chipped plastic knives and forks you love so much, England! And plastic party plates [theguardian.com], too.

Figures suggest that every year England uses [www.gov.uk] about 1.1bn single-use plates and 4.25bn pieces of such cutlery, only 10% of which are recycled after being used. Plastic items relating to takeaway food and drink, including food containers and cutlery, make up the largest share of litter in the world's oceans [theguardian.com], according to research. Now the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, is set to ban a suite of single-use plastic items, confirming reports made last month [theguardian.com].

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