They have been a familiar sight at takeaway sushi shops around the world for decades but it could be the beginning of the end for fish-shaped soy sauce dispensers.
South Australia will be the first place in the world to ban them under a wider ban on single-use plastics that comes into force on 1 September.
Under South Australia’s new law, only pre-filled soy sauce containers with a lid, cap or stopper and containing less than 30ml of soy sauce will be banned. Plastic sachets will be allowed but the government hopes bulk bottles or dispensers will be used in sushi shops instead.
The South Australian environment minister, Dr Susan Close, said each plastic fish container was used for just seconds but “their small size means they’re easily dropped, blown away, or washed into drains, making them a frequent component of beach and street litter”.
Good! We need to make sacrifices during our whole lifetimes to offset what a billionaire pollutes in a single private jet trip. It wouldn’t make sense any other way.
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calling not using small fish shaped plastic soy sauce containers a sacrifice is exaggerating to say the least
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some billionaire was making money selling these, so it will cause inconvenience for them
You’re just being argumentative. Shut up.
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Was this a problem? I live in America, hundreds of miles from the ocean, so its totally outside my perspective. It seems like a very specific solution.
