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With a growing number of UK food and drink outlets ditching drinking straws and plastic bottles, we'd like to hear your tips for reducing plastic consumption

Pret A Manger announced in October the installation of taps dispensing free filtered water in some of its stores in an attempt to reduce the company's use of plastic.

A growing number of food and drink outlets are taking action to ditch plastic amid deepening concern about its effect on the environment, with drinking straws and bottles among items being phased out.