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India begins to ban single-use plastics including cups and straws

NPR · The Associated Press · last updated

NEW DELHI — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.

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