The government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups in England as part of what it calls a "war on plastic". Ministers said the move would help to ...

An odd thought crossed Katsuhiko Sakakibara's mind upon spying a mound of garbage made up of plastic plates ... a business that makes edible tableware and cutlery to sell to environmentally ...

Around 1.1 billion single-use plates and more than four billion pieces of plastic cutlery are used in England every year, government figures suggest. The vast majority of these products cannot be ...

Single-use plastic plates, cutlery, expanded and extruded polystyrene cups and food and beverage containers could all soon be phased out in the latest Government bid to eliminate all avoidable plastic ...