8 May, 2017 @ 12:02
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Plastic cups and plates to be banned on Mallorca

Plastic cups and plates to be banned on Mallorca

87834557PLASTIC cups and plates will be banned on Mallorca from 2020. 

The items, including plastic crockery, will be prohibited by the new law being presented by the environment ministry.

At the start of 2019, shops will be forbidden from selling lightweight plastic bags for single usage.

Only the bags used to buy fruit and vegetables in will be permitted.

The law has been a year in the making and contains 62 articles.

Disposable items which are biodegradable will not be banned,

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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