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The theme for this year's United Nations World Environment Day, (June 5, 2018) is "Beating Plastic Pollution." Coincidentally, the feature article and cover of the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine is entitled "Planet or Plastic."
Such environmental concerns related to plastic has caused an increasing number of companies to seek alternatives with more favorable environmental features, such as paper and paper-based packaging.
McDonald's in the U.K. is testing the use of biodegradable paper straws to replace plastic straws to see how people respond to the change. As the U.K. moves to ban all sales of single-use plastics such as straws as early as 2019, finding a suitable alternative has become urgent.
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