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Takeaway items banned from October 1
Fast food and takeaways will be very different from October 1, or outlets will face prosecution
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New rules will mean an end to several items you regularly pick up at the takeaway
Several items commonly picked up in takeaways will be banned across the UK from October 1
Local authorities will conduct inspections to ensure fast food restaurants and takeaways are complying with the new legislation.
Trading Standards departments will have the authority to fine and prosecute those who break the new rules, reports The Mirror. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Thérèse Coffey said: “I am determined to drive forward action to tackle this issue head-on.
“We’ve already taken major steps in recent years – but we know there is more to do, and we have again listened to the public’s calls.”
Theban includes single-use plastic cutlery, polystyrene containers and cups, and single-use plastic plates, trays and bowls as well as plastic balloon sticks. There are exemptions to the ban.
The Government website states the only reason businesses can use and supply single-use plastic plates, bowls and trays is if they are being “supplied to another business, or the items are packaging (pre-filled or filled at the point of sale)” and detailing that examples of these are “pre-filled salad bows or ready meals packaged in a tray, a plate filled at the counter of a takeaway or a tray used to deliver food.”
The exemptions for the use of food or drink in polystyrene containers and cups are “if it needs further preparation before it is consumed” meaning that if the food or drink needs water added, or needs to be microwaved or toasted. There are however no exemptions for single-use plastic cutlery and balloon sticks and will be banned altogether from October 1.
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Advice on the Government website warns fines will be issued if businesses are found to supply the single-use plastics after October 1 and suggests businesses should “use up existing stock before October 1, find reusable alternatives to single-use items and use different materials for single-use items.” Fines can be appealed if the business believes they haven’t broken the law.
Polystyrene can take hundreds of years to break down, and it’s estimated that England alone uses 2.7 billion items of single-use cutlery each year, as well as 721 million single-use plates but just 10% are recycled. It comes after plastic straws were banned on October 1, 2020.
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