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The crackdown is part of new series of Government restrictions, which will be enforced locally by councils through their trading standards teams.
Takeaway places and customers face a weekend of chaos and disruption ahead of a new ban on single-use plastic.
A ban on single-use plastic set to come in this weekend has caused uproar amid claims hospitality owners were 'unaware' of the change.
Firms have said that they were not aware of a ban in England on single-use plastic cutlery, plates and polystyrene trays that comes into force on Sunday.
Plastic cutlery is banned under new rules but plastic containers for takeaway and shop bought meals are not.