‘A drop in the ocean’: England bans some single-use plastics – but does it go far enough?
Single-use plastic items including cutlery and plates will soon be banned in England, the government has announced.
Each year, the country uses around 1.1 billion single-use plates and 4.25 billion items of cutlery, according to government estimates. Only 10 per cent of these are recycled.
Now, environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has confirmed that such items will be outlawed in England.
