In California, restaurants have been banned from selling drinks with plastic tubes.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a law restricting the use of plastic beverage tubing in state restaurants.

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The law will come into force in 2019 year and will not affect establishments serving fast food, writes “Currently,".

According to the law, in restaurants it is forbidden to serve drinks with plastic straws, unless the client himself asks for it. If the institution, after two warnings, continues to violate the law, it faces a fine of up to $ 300. The implementation of the new rules will be monitored by employees of the Department of Health.

California Governor Jerry Brown noted that whales and fish are dying due to plastic being dumped into the ocean, and it also poisons food and water resources.

«Пластик помог нашему обществу развиться, но наша безрассудная страсть к использованию одноразовой продукции привела к катастрофическим последствиям. Пластик во всех его формах – трубочка, бутылка, пакеты и так далее – душат нашу планету», – сказал он.
In 2014, California passed a law prohibiting the use of disposable plastic bags.

The American Ecological Group launched the rejection campaign Lonely Whale. Они привлекают к своей инициативе чиновников и знаменитостей, организовывают уборку пляжей, продвигают свою идею в соцсетях с помощью хэштега #StopSucking – дословно «хватит сосать», но в английском эта фраза еще и сленговая, ее можно перевести как «хватит быть отстоем».

According to studies, only in the States every day use 500 million plastic straws. AT report An international campaign to clean up the coast by volunteers in 2017 says that plastic tubing is the seventh of the items most often found on the coasts. The first three places are occupied by cigarette butts, plastic bottles and caps from them.

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