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Although I agree overall with saving the planet, what are now businesses to do with all the stock? If it can no longer legally be used for this purpose all that new stock - goes to landfill!? Isn’t that more polluting and wasteful? Are we going back to newspaper for our fish n chips??

JLouM
11 months ago
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jms19

You would hope that any current stock is allowed to be sold cause what you say about the wastage is totally true.

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soul101

I agree if its already there why waste something decent and still contribute to the issue

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Jerseydrew

You would hope the plastic can be used. Personally I'm glad it's been banned. As for getting take away reckon it's going to be recyclable stuff including newspapers and encouraging people to bring your own containers which is amazing and love but be a pain if you're out for the night and want chips and kebab on the way home

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lornaae

Such changes would likely be rolled out slowly so unlikely that existing products would go straight to landfill. However there are definitely sustainable alternatives and it is about time we adopt more sustainable practices.

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kikogpe
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lornaae It was announced more than a year ago. If any business decided to fill up their stocka in the last month, good luck trying to deal with it.

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lornaae

kikogpe yeah so it’s given people a lot of time to prepare and be aware of the changes. It is a very necessary change and will be greatly beneficial. Plenty of businesses already use sustainable alternatives so I’m looking forward to seeing this more widespread 🙂

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Mark007

it is too late to ban single use plastic. Many countries were banned single plastic many years before

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