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Ban looming for more plastic things

Wednesday 12 Aug 20 12:00pm

Branding stickers on fruit are among the plastics likely to be banned.

Plastic items including straws, plates and branding stickers on fruit are likely to go the way of single-use plastic bags and be banned.

Associate environment minister Eugenie Sage was to announce the Government’s latest proposal to cut plastic waste at an event in Auckland today, marking Ecostore’s new bottle-recycling scheme.

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