The American University of Sharjah (AUS) has announced plans to tackle plastic and Styrofoam waste, and is set to become the first university in the UAE to ban single-use plastic on campus. University students have called the initiative 'an excellent move'. Starting January 2020, all vendors on the AUS campus will be banned from selling plastic water containers holding less than 500 millimetres of water. Juice and soda drinks will ...