Costa Rica is set to be the first country in the world to entirely eliminate all single use plastics. This ban applies to a wide variety of items including plastic bags, water bottles, plastic forks, lids and coffee stirrers. The government aims to reach this goal by 2021.
Costa Rica aims to become the first country to ban all single-use plastics
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