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’.