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McDonald’s And Starbucks Hit by Plastics Ban in India
The ban on single-use plastic items including shopping bags, food containers and cutlery, was announced in late March but went into force on Saturday.
McDonald’s and Starbucks have been caught in a crackdown on plastics in India.
The restaurant chains were among dozens of companies hit with fines in Maharashtra state — India’s second-largest with a population of more than 100 million — at the weekend, a government official said.