Pizza East and Wahaca join other Soho restaurants in Straw Wars campaign

1st February 2012, 2:04pm

Restaurants across London’s Soho, including Pizza East and Wahaca, are joining forces to reduce the number of discarded straws.

Billions of straws are wasted every year and the campaign, aptly named Straw Wars, has launched to highlight the wastage.

The team behind Straw Wars is asking operators to simply stick to its pledge - either get rid of straws completely or provide a straw only when requested by a customer.

Other restaurants already signed up are Hix, Barrafina, The Dean Street Townhouse and Quo Vadis to name just a few.

Jamie Poulton, owner of Randall & Aubin, and campaign leader said that whilst the project is ambitious, its benefits could be far-reaching: "Straw Wars is a campaign to unite the Soho community in eliminating unnecessary single use plastic. If we're able to raise awareness with Straw Wars and the work that Soho has done towards a cleaner environment – then the next step would be a move towards resolving the current waste collection and disposal issues in Soho. Our ultimate goal is to establish a recycling centre in Soho itself. This is a very ambitious project, but will benefit local businesses, customers and the environment."

You don't have to be based in Soho to get involved. For more information visit www.strawwars.org

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