NYC Council To Introduce Bill Banning Plastic Straws

NEW YORK  — The City Council is expected to introduce a bill Wednesday to ban the use of plastic straws in New York City.

Restaurants would be able to offer reusable aluminum straws or straws made of paper, corn — even pasta.

Councilman Rafael Espinal told CBS2’s Jessica Moore a lot of restaurants have already signed on and either use only biodegradable straws or a have a straw-on-request-only policy.

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