The river of plastic that shames Britain: Piled up among the driftwood, scores of discarded bottles, car parts, tyres chokes a Yorkshire stream
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It comes as a photograph shows a river in Doncaster filled with plastic bottles
Piled up among the driftwood, scores of discarded bottles, car parts, tyres and crisp packets choke one of Britain's rivers
Rubbish, Plastic and other litter floating on the river Cheswold, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Singling out straws, the UN environment chief called for a ban on plastics that cannot be recycled.
He said: 'Why can't you drink from a bottle or a glass? If every bar put up a sign saying, "If you need a straw ask for it" that would cut straw use by 95 per cent.'
n Plastic wet wipes, which are blamed for more than 90 per cent of sewer blockages, are to be banned. Tens of millions of the throwaway wipes, which are used for babies, to remove make-up and to clean homes, are flushed down toilets.
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[ NB: Please avoid plastic , save the environment ]
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