Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers called for the substance to be outlawed by 2024 to restore peatlands, which are the UK’s largest carbon sink.
The government-backed pilot scheme is being heralded as a ‘trailblazer’ for new age urban transport as the first driverless bus has already arrived in Sunderland.
Cadbury warned they may have to raise prices or shrink products ‘as a last resort’. Nestle said it may have to ‘make adjustments to the price or weight of some of our products’.
The proposal is being weighed by Atlanta City Council for the Downtown, Midtown and Castleberry Hill areas of the Georgia city.