WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Plastic soy sauce bottles shaped like fish are popular among takeout sushi eaters in many counties. But restaurants in the state of South Australia were banned from offering the decorative containers to customers beginning Monday in a new measure enacted to curb plastic waste.

The state of 1.9 million was the first in Australia to enact a prohibition on the fish-shaped bottles. South Australia's government has annually added new items to its list of banned plastics , making the measures the country's most comprehensive.

Fish-shaped bottles were singled out

Singling out the fishy containers might seem unusually specific, but officials said the receptacles were particularly bad for the environment and could be mistaken by marine life for food when they r

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