(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. promises to ban the sale of single use plastic drinking straws and cotton buds later this year in a bid to clean up the world’s oceans.
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Prime Minister Theresa May announced the plans ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth leaders in London, urging the former British colonies to follow suit.
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Oceans are littered with more than 150 million tons of plastic, harming birds and sea mammals who can die from eating the fragments or getting tangled in larger pieces.
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