Plastic pints for Dundee's football fans

19/02/2010

Both of Dundee's senior football clubs have agreed to start using plastic pint glasses in their public bars.

The move is part of city-wide campaign to reduce the number of injuries from drink-related violence.

The plastic glasses, which are virtually unbreakable, are provided free to licensees by the Dundee Community Safety Partnership....

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Cardiff city centre crime project's award Cardiff city centre crime project's award

19/02/2010

Researchers behind efforts to reduce city centre violence are receiving an award from The Queen on Friday.

Cardiff University aimed to cut drunken crime and injuries in the city using innovative methods such as encouraging pubs and clubs to use plastic glasses.

...Research on injuries involving beer glasses led to the use of toughened glass and plastic in pubs and nightclubs.

The group said this had been linked to a 70% fall in glass assaults....

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Pubwatch hails plastic glasses switch

11/01/2010

PLASTIC glasses have meant a trouble free Christmas and new year for pub managers in Scunthorpe.

...Police figures showed a sharp drop in the number of 'glassings' - where someone uses a pub glass as a weapon - and managers said they reduce the potential for trouble.

Eight bars in the town centre area of Scunthorpe are understood to be using the plastic glasses...

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Police step up Christmas patrols in Brick Lane

10/12/2009

Twenty uniformed police officers will be patrolling the Brick Lane area over Christmas.

...Police Sgt Charlie Earwicker said: "We're contacting all the licensed premises to ensure they serve people responsibly with alcohol. We are promoting plastic glasses, and pubs and clubs will have a hotline number to phone to ensure any disorder is dealt with promptly."...

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Plastic pint glasses in Ribble Valley pubs to help cut injuries

30/11/2009

PLASTIC glasses are to be given to Ribble Valley pubs in a bid to reduce accidents and injuries caused by glass attacks.

More than 3,000 polycarbonate glasses, which are designed to look and feel like normal glasses, will be given to pubs and clubs in the borough's towns after funding from Ribble Valley Borough Council.

The move is part of a campaign to encourage pub owners to use the plastic glasses in the run-up to Christmas in a bid to reduce violent crime.

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Christmas crackdown on Swansea's booze problems

26/11/2009

TIME is being called on booze-related crime in the countdown to Christmas.

A series of measures have been drawn up as part of the clampdown.

Action includes high visibility policing in trouble-spots during the party season, plastic glasses being handed out in pubs and clubs in a drive to curb the risk of alcohol related injuries and taxi marshals will be out patrolling the ranks to prevent problems.

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Scunthorpe licensees hail plastic pints

20/11/2009

LICENSEES have reported a drop in night-time disorder, one year after a Scunthorpe Pubwatch scheme introduced plastic glasses to the town centre.

The number of glassings dropped immediately after the introduction of polycarbonate glasses with two throughout December 2008 and January 2009 compared with five in the same period the previous year.

...Steve Turner, licensing manager for Humberside Police, said: "The numbers of glass related incidents have reduced, but there are still bottles being used as weapons, but fortunately there have been no serious injuries...

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Award for drink-violence project

18/11/2009

A partnership between university researchers and police in Cardiff to reduce alcohol-related violence has been given an award.

The approach, ranging from looking at pub opening hours, bar design to the use of plastic glasses, has already been adopted by other cities.

..."The immediately obvious solution, which had an instantaneous benefit, was to put pressure on clubs and city centre pubs open late to adopt plastic glasses or one's made from toughened glass."...

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Pub plastic glasses defended

22/09/2009

The plastics industry has defended polycarbonate glassware in a letter to the British Beer and Pub Association.

...BPF director general Peter Davis wrote: "I felt I should write to you and correct some misleading information which appeared in the media.

"Plastics technology is constantly evolving and can meet successfully almost every application referred to it...

...He said it’s "completely feasible" to supply plastic containers that last longer than glass, are dishwasher-safe, give no 'taint' from the plastic into the drink and weigh and look like glass....

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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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