A nationwide survey of Dutch takeaway food outlets shows widespread noncompliance with European rules restricting single-use plastics, with many businesses continuing to use plastic straws, cups, bags, and cutlery despite bans and required fees. A fish vendor at a market in Apeldoorn told AD, "Those rules don’t work anyway. Am I supposed to serve fatty fish on cardboard? That would become a mess.”
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