Mater Dei Hospital has joined the movement calling for a reduction in single-use plastic by replacing its employees’ plastic cutlery with metal ones.

As from February 1, the hospital will stop usage of disposable plastic cutlery by its employees.

This initiative will see the elimination of some two million pieces of plastic items per year.

Going a step further, the hospital is asking planned in-patients or visitors to bring their own cutlery, to drop the dependency on single-use plastics.

The hospital noted that patient meals would continue to be supplied with disposable cutlery sets.