Plastic Glasses News

As the benefits of using plastic glasses in pubs and nightclubs are becoming more well known, they have become the topic of many news stories around the UK.

Below are links to various news story's regarding plastic glasses.

Top Stories

City MP gets PM's pledge on poly' glasses

Mark Lancaster raises safer glasses issue in Commons.....

...Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to look at measures to have plastic, or polycarbonate, drinks glasses used in all clubs and bars...

Read the full story at:
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/City-MP-gets-PM39s-pledge.4293995.jp

Pubs and clubs in Bognor move to dump glass for plastic

Licensees around Bognor Regis are calling time on traditional beer glasses to make the town safer.....

..."It's all about people enjoying themselves in a safe and sound environment and polycarbonate drinking vessels can help to achieve that."

Read the full story at:
http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/Pubs-and-clubs-in-Bognor.4272227.jp

Plastic Future For Town Centre Bar

A TOWN centre bar will have to serve all drinks in plastic glasses after councillors imposed strict new conditions on its licence.....

...Sergeant Carl Davis, of Harrow Police, said he was pleased with the result and hoped it would help the bar prevent crime and disorder, and secure the safety of customers....

Read the full story at:
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.2325767.0.plastic_future_for_town_centre_bar.php

Getting behind plastic glasses

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Club told to get tough on yobs

One of Oxford's biggest nightclubs - the Bridge - has been ordered to clean up its act as part of a "tougher stance" on night-time violence....

...The Police and Oxford City Council's first licence restriction on the Bridge is an instruction to replace glasses and bottles with polycarbonates or plastics....

Read the full story at:
http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.2155346.0.club_told_to_get_tough_on_yobs.php

Glass in the past as Luminar goes plastic

Britain's biggest nightclub operator Luminar is on course to go completely glass-free within the next two months...

...Chief executive Steve Thomas said the introduction of polycarbonate containers had also slashed cleaning costs by 15% while reducing the possibility of violence inside Luminar bars and clubs...

Read the full story at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/04/bcnluminar104.xml

136 injured by pub glass attacks

New figures have revealed police in Northampton were called to deal with 136 violent town centre "glassing" attacks in the past three years...

...campaigners say serious injuries could have been avoided had polycarbonates or plastic glasses been used...

Read the full story at:
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/136-injured-by-pub-glass.3830442.jp

Judge calls for ban on glass pints

A judge has called on pub and club owners to introduce 'unsmashable' polycarbonate drinking cups to their venues to stop glasses being used as weapons...

...Tom Morrissey, East Northamptonshire Council's enforcement officer, said: "These glasses are virtually unbreakable and are one way of reducing the damage caused by violence and the dangerous mess that broken glass leaves on our streets."...

Read the full story at:
http://www.northantset.co.uk/news/Judge-calls-for-a-ban.3828902.jp

City's glasses switch to plastic

Pubs and clubs in Newport city centre could soon all be serving drinks in plastic glasses in an attempt to cut down on violent attacks...

..."If we can get Newport city centre licensed premises to switch to polycarbonate glasses, we can cut the levels of glassings in the force area by 50%."
Insp Talbot Thrush ...

Read the full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6600077.stm