Wagamama to ditch plastic straws in all of its restaurants by April
The Asian food group has stopped providing them to customers across its 128 UK restaurants
WAGAMAMA has become the latest restaurant chain to announce it is to end the use of plastic straws.
The Asian food group has stopped providing them to customers across its 128 UK restaurants, and is only handing them out on request or with juices that need stirring.
It will stop providing them at all from Earth Day on April 22.
Customers will then be offered a biodegradable paper alternative.
Wagamama said the move would prevent seven million single-use plastic straws polluting the environment each year.
Chief executive Jane Holbrook said: “We are constantly looking to make improvements.”
Fizzy drinks firm Soda-Stream has cut the price of its machines from £100 to £20 to push sustainable usage of tap water.
The moves follow PM Theresa May’s new 25-year plan to tackle plastic pollution.