Sustainable wheat straws hit UK outlets
The Wheat Drinking Straw has launched to the UK hospitality sector, providing operators with an alternative to plastic, paper and ‘bio-plastic’ products. The naturally compostable, single-use straw is made using a natural by-product from wheat harvests. The wheat is harvested for the grain and the hollow stem is used as a drinking straw. As well …
Bacardà spearheads campaign to rid bars of plastic straws
A campaign has been launched by Bacardà Rum to remove single-use plastic straws from bars, pubs, clubs and restaurants. Part of a global initiative, the brand has teamed up with non-profit organisation Lonely Whale with the initial aim to rid London of 50 million straws this summer under the banner of #TheFutureDoesntSuck. Operators will be …
Bar and restaurant group declares war on single-use straws
Bar and restaurant group The Alchemist is to stop automatically serving drinks with plastic straws across all of its sites, saving an estimated two million that go into landfill each year. The company is this month joining movement by bars, pubs, restaurants, cafés and clubs around the world to ditch the hard-to-recycle single-use straws, which …
