AUSTIN, Texas (May 20, 2019) – Whole Foods Market today announced that it will eliminate plastic straws from its stores in the U.S., the U.K. Whole Foods Market recently eliminated all polystyrene/Styrofoam meat trays in all stores in the U.S. Whole Foods Market also provides customers with environmentally responsible food containers for items from its Prepared Foods department, including salad boxes made of 100 percent commercially compostable material. Taiwan’s ban goes farther by banning a suite of other popular plastic items. These measures will culminate in a flat-out ban on single-use bags, utensils, veggie straws 7 ounce bag, and containers by 2030, Hong Kong Free Press reports. Ordering take-out, picking up groceries, buying a soft drink – these are all activities that will change over the next decade in Taiwan when the island nation imposes a blanket ban on single-use plastic bags, straws, and cups, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. When implemented, it will ban the use or importation of single-use plastic bags and bottles – and it will make Vanuatu the first Pacific country to launch such a ban. As of July 1, Seattle will become the first US city to enact a ban on plastic straws, along with single-use plastic utensils.

Those caught violating the ban have to pay a fine of between $30 and $500. As of August 2017, anyone in Kenya who’s found using, producing, or selling a plastic bag faces up to four years in jail, or a $38,000 fine. In July 2017, Zimbabwe announced a total ban on expanded polystyrene (EPS), a styrofoam-like material used for food containers that takes up to a million years to decompose. On July 30, 2017, its independence day, the Pacific nation of Vanuatu announced the beginning of a phasing out of plastic bags and bottles. This massive city in India, home to over 20 million people, took a major step toward helping the planet when it banned all forms of single-use plastic in 2017. The city, which was found to have the worst air quality out of 1,600 cities that were analysed, took the step after complaints were made of illegal burning of plastic at garbage dumps. Globally, around 380 million metric tons of plastic are being created annually. Research had previously found that there were 1.1 million microbeads per square kilometre in Lake Ontario. It’s not quite a complete ban, however, with “leave-on” products like sunscreen and makeup still allowed to contain microbeads.

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By July 2019, Whole Foods Market will remove plastic straws from Whole Foods Market-operated venues, including Allegro coffee bars, juice bars and cafes. Gallo, President and Chief Merchandising Officer at Whole Foods Market. Add a second arch next to the first one, and keep adding colored arches until you have a giant rainbow. Influential architect and one of the biggest names in Danish furniture design Poul Kjærholm created the lightweight and stackable ‘PK1’ in 1955 as his first chair. But the landmark bill was launched to ban the production, import, sale, and distribution of all plastic bags across the country. Cities along the border almost seem to be a country of their own; the collaboration and exchange create such a dramatic blending of cultures that can really be seen through the state. Patterning can also be achieved using a clockwise twist and giving an up-to-the-right pattern, or counter-clockwise twist to give a down-to-the-right pattern.