Russian government wants to ban disposable plastic tableware
According to Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko, the Russian government is working on a new law that will ban the use of non-recyclable plastic goods, including disposable plastic tableware. "We must ban the use and circulation of non-recyclable materials, such as, for example, colored plastic, hard-to-recover materials such as cocktail straws, disposable tableware, and so on. This is what we need to work on, and this is what we have in the practical work of the government," Abramchenko said at the Clean Country forum. By 2030, Russia needs to achieve the extraction of 50 percent of s...