Scotland to ban manufacture and sale of plastic cotton swabs

Inhabitat
Jan 11, 2018, 10:28 am139 pts
Scotland is set to be the first country in the United Kingdom to ban plastic-stemmed cotton swabs. Both the manufacture and sale of the polluting items - hundreds were found during a recent Gullane beach clean-up - would be banned. Environment secretary Roseanna Cunningham said, "...people are continuing to…

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