Introduce tax on disposable coffee cups to reduce waste

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Introduce tax on disposable coffee cups to reduce waste

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2,500,000,000 disposable coffee cups are thrown away in the UK each year.

1 in 400 are recycled. The coffee industry and chains are NOT doing enough voluntarily to reduce waste. The tax for plastic bags worked-use fell massively. Let's consider the environment and do the same with coffee cups.

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We need to start reducing our waste now before it is too late.

100,000 trees are used for the cups each year:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/05/uks-billions-of-takeaway-cups-could-each-take-30-years-to-break-down

Ministers reject coffee cup tax despite massive wastage: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/31/ministers-reject-calls-for-charge-on-disposable-coffee-cups

Plastic bag reductions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36917174

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