The Welsh Government wishes to ban the following list of single-use plastic products due to the frequency of how often these items are found littered in parks, streets, seas and beaches:
- Single-use plastic plates – this includes paper plates with a laminated plastic surface
- Single-use plastic cutlery – for example forks, spoons, knives
- Single-use plastic drinks stirrers
- Cups made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene.
- Takeaway food containers made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene
- Single-use plastic balloon sticks
- Single-use plastic-stemmed Cotton buds
- Single-use plastic drinking straws – with exemptions so people who need them to eat and drink safely and independently can continue to have them
Phase 2 will include items such as carrier bags, polystyrene lids for cups, takeaway food containers and oxo-degradable plastic produces and the aim is to introduce this by Spring 2026.
For more information on the draft guidance for this click the link below:
Single Use Plastics Wales Guidance
