takeaways, restaurants, and cafes in england will have to stop using plastic cutlery, plates and bowls from october as part of a new government plan to tackle plastic pollution. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico,
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quick, convenient and no washing up but from october, the government says it plans to ban restaurants and cafes in england from using some single use plastics and polystyrenes. we ve got a whole raft of measures on waste, trying to reduce waste in this country, and this new ban that we re announcing today is just one of a whole raft of measures to really tackle this issue. ministers are planning to ban single use plastic trays, cutlery, in 2020, single use plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers were banned for sale and distribution. it s estimated that england uses 2.7 billion items of single use cutlery each year and the majority are plastic. in 2020, plastic cutlery made it to the top 15 most littered items. england, though, is playing catch up with other uk nations. wales approved similar measures last month those come into effect later this year and scotland introduced a similar ban lastjune. takeaway owners are concerned that new rules could add to their costs when bills a