Diners now have to ask for plastic utensils and napkins in Los Angeles

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Customers at Los Angeles restaurants will only get plastic utensils and napkins if they ask for them, under a new ordinance that aims to reduce waste.

The rule requires all restaurants with more than 26 employees to remove all single-use plastic utensil dispensers, theBusinesses must also stop including plastic utensils and napkins with takeout orders or for dine-in meals unless a customer specifically asks for them.

Over 32,000 mailers were sent out earlier this year to update restaurants on the new rules. The letters were printed in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and English.The city of Malibu set the plastic-ban standard in 2008 when it phased out plastic shopping bags, then a decade later cracked down on single-use plastics. The cities of Davis and San Luis Obispo have similar laws, according to the Times.

 

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Also if we can include banning plastic bags at restaurants and grocery stores.

This is OPPRESSION!!!11!234!!33

The rest of the world is not conserving plastic, so it really don't matter. We are not the world.

I wonder what would happen if the average American put a video out attempting to harm any person in congress? Yeah, I thought so

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