South Australia bans single-use plastic cutlery and straws

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South Australia has become the first Australian state to introduce laws banning some single-use plastics including cutlery, straws and stirrers.

Environmental campaigners say the laws, likely to come into force in early 2021, are historic and will help protect wildlife on land and in the oceans. On the list of banned items are single-use plastic straws, cutlery and drinks stirrers, as well as polystyrene cups, bowls, plates and clamshell containers.

Jeff Angel, director of the Boomerang Alliance, which represents 52 environment and conservation groups on plastics, congratulated the SA government on ground-breaking laws. “These plastic items are amongst the most littered and represent a major threat to the environment and to wildlife. They all have available and better alternatives.”

Switching to reusable and compostable items was achievable and would cut costs and waste, he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/11/south-australias-ban-on-single-use-plastic-cutlery-and-straws-hailed-as-historic

[Economy 52,854]

Canada's ban on single use plastics I think was also due to begin in 2021 but for us it's Federal so it applies to whole Country

 

Tho I dunno how I feel about cutlery. Parties are gonna be a pain if u have to get real cutlery for 50 or 60 people all of a sudden for your BBQ Sunday

[Andreu 37,216]

Well done 

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10 minutes ago, Economy said:

Tho I dunno how I feel about cutlery. Parties are gonna be a pain if u have to get real cutlery for 50 or 60 people all of a sudden for your BBQ Sunday

You can buy one or more sets and then have them for a lifetime.

[River 127,468]

Since the bans and stuff, I stopped eating at restaurants because many of them don't have alternatives and I'm not eating from a fork/spoon or glass that someone else used, think what u want, idc, it's my psychological problem and there are many like me and this ban without a proper solution is giving us a hell of a time.

[God Control 2,181]

That’s actually f*cking amazing. Metal cutlery and glass cups are far more elegant and less harmful to the environment.