The Chinese government has announced a new plan to crack down on plastic pollution across the country by 2025, including a ban on single-use plastic straws and bags.
Marriott International will ban plastic straws by July 2019. across the country by 2025, including a ban on single-use plastic straws and bags.
For example, according to the document, the catering industry will be banned from using single-use plastic cutlery in major cities by the end of 2020, while non-degradable plastic straws will be unavailable nationwide. Thin, single-use plastic bags will be banned in most stores in large cities by the end of 2020, but smaller cities and villages have until 2022 or even 2025 to begin phasing them out.
The huge use of single-use plastic products by humans is having a devastating impact on the world's wildlife, with an estimated
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