Almost 70 per cent of Hong Kong’s small- and medium-sized restaurants are still offering disposable utensils for free, the government has said as the city marked one month of its single-use plastics ban. The Environment and Ecology Bureau (EEB) said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that while most major chain restaurants had adopted non-plastic alternatives, smaller eateries had yet to make the switch. Most small- and medium-sized restaurants still provided disposable utensils for free. Others charged HK$1 or HK$2 for plastic cutlery, the bureau said. “The restaurants that have not made the swi…
