Plastic Straws Survive CoviD-19!!

A bit tongue-in-cheek that headline but it does just highlight the sometimes bizarre consequences of the CoviD-19 pandemic. Edie has reported that Defra has pushed back the ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds to October 2020 (It should have come in this month). Some may shrug their shoulders and say that it's just a couple of months, why worry, but there is cause for concern if this is an indication of a general relaxation of environmental concerns. In this case the ban has been in the offing for a couple of years and producers should have been damn-nearly ready by the time SARS-CoV-2 started its dirty work in the UK. A delay is really not justified.