Adults should "act responsibly" by stopping asking for plastic straws in their alcoholic drinks, a Government Environment minister has said.
Therese Coffey, the 'minister for litter', has started to take direct against against the use of plastic straws as the Government gears up for a major assault on litter this spring.
Ms Coffey has regularly tweeted support for the increasing number of restaurant and bar chains which are stopping offering plastic drinking straws, dubbing them "strawpedoes".
She said on Twitter that she hoped the changing public mood would "signal the end of strawpedoes, we (esp adults) don't need plastic straws to drink".
And Ms Coffey is even understood to have challenged guests at political drinks parties by removing plastic straws from their glasses.
Ms Coffey said that she wanted to encourage people to feel they can challenge challenge littering in public places.
Ms Coffey told...