This article from Edie states that ministers have rejected a call for a levy on disposable coffee cups. Well, maybe for the time being that's the right decision. I think the analogy between charging for cups and charging for plastic carrier bags may not be a sound one.
However, that is not to say that there is no problem with the recycling rate of disposable cups and that, in that time-honoured phrase, "Something must be done". In our village we have just undertaken the latest of our biennial litter picks. At each event there appears to be an unholy competition between coffee cups and Red Bull cans as to which can be the worst offender. As it happens, this time around Red Bull just "won" the competition but both categories of waste were far too prevalent. So - Costa, Starbucks, Cafe Nero etc. - what are you going to do? And come to that, the same question goes for Red Bull.
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