Pubs urged to switch to plastic glasses
27/08/2009
ALL Scunthorpe's town centre venues should adopt plastic glasses, officials have said.
The call comes just after the Home Office announced plans to ban pint glasses outright and replace them with shatterproof plastic versions.
...Pc Steven Turner, licensing officer, said the plastics, known as polycarbonates, were popular with police and licensees.
"We are trying to encourage more and more premises to adopt them, obviously we can't force them and appreciate it does cost a fair bit to change over.
"But once they're bought the indication is that pubs benefit, because with glass more has to be spent on renewing stock, replacing dance floors and there are fewer breakages....
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