Pizza Express is scrapping straws from its 470 restaurants (Picture: PA)

A five-year-old girl had her wish come true after she penned a letter to Pizza Express asking them to stop using straws as ‘they are very bad for animals’.

Pizza Express decided to scrap plastic straws, which have been found in sea turtles’ noses, countless animals’ stomach linings and washed up on beaches across the planet, after reading Ava’s letter.

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The popular Italian chain restaurant, which has 470 outlets across the country and uses millions of plastic straws a year, posted Ava’s cute letter to its Facebook page.

A spokesman said: ‘We pride ourselves on listening to our customers, so when Ava, aged five, sent us a letter asking us to stop putting plastic straws in her drink because “they are very bad for animals”, it spurred us to make a change.




‘We are now phasing out single-use plastic straws from all our 470+ restaurants from this summer, and we’ll be replacing them with biodegradable and recyclable paper versions.’

Ava, aged five, wrote this letter to Pizza Express

Ava had written: ‘I am writing to you to ask if you could stop using plastic straws because they are very bad for animals.

‘They can get stuck in their mouths and noses. Could you only use straws if people ask for them because I don’t want any animals to get sick.’

Over 6,000 people liked the Pizza Express post and nearly 1,000 people shared it with the majority of the 365 comments positive.

Jules Craig said: ‘

However, this being social media, not every comment was as nice.

And there were even comments from Grammar Nazis picking up mistakes in the five-year-old’s prose, one pointing out she used the term ‘me and my brothers’ instead of ‘my brothers and I.’

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