Starting Tuesday, all Los Angeles restaurants, including fast-food chains, will be required to withhold plastic straws unless a customer requests one.
Beginning Tuesday, all Los Angeles restaurants will be required to withhold plastic straws unless a customer requests one.in April aiming to limit the availability of single-use straws. The law now applies to restaurants of all sizes.offering or providing disposable plastic straws
to customers who are dining in or taking food to go unless patrons request them. The initiative is an attempt to reduce single-use plastic waste from littering beaches and waterways, said Councilman Mitch O’Farrell. “As a coastal community, we have a heightened responsibility to remove as much single-use plastic from the waste stream as possible,” O’Farrell said Monday. “Restaurants across the city are already switching to alternatives that are biodegradable while more Angelenos are using reusable straws and by extension participating in helping to clean our environment.”California has already passed similar
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