A New Single Use Coffee Cup Charge To Be Introduced Later This Year
A New Single Use Coffee Cup Charge is to be introduced later this year. The Government plans to introduce a 20c levy on disposable coffee cups later this year to try to encourage people to choose reusable alternatives. The Cabinet has approved a bill which includes this measure to help reduce waste. The Government intends to bring in a 20c Levey on single use cups later this year, but this is subject to approval from the European Union.
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The Department of the Environment surveys reports that nearly 200 million disposable cups end up in landfill or incinerators each year. They are also a litter blight on our roadsides in our towns and villages up and down the countryside. The Department have said that the 20c levey will be ringfenced in a fund for Environment and climate projects. “The ambition is to make Ireland the first country in the world to eradicate disposable coffee cups,” a spokesperson from the department said.
“It’s very similar to the plastic bag levy,” the spokesperson said. “People will remember when that came in, we were using a giant number of plastic bags and after the levy came in, the reduction was 95% in the use of plastic bags.” The plastic bag levy, introduced in 2002 in Ireland, requires shops to charge 22 cent for a plastic shopping bag.
Environment Minister Eamon Ryan said “we need to re-think the way we interact with the goods and materials we use every day” to reach net-zero emissions. “Through a mix of economic incentives and smarter regulation we can achieve far more sustainable patterns of production and consumption that move us away from the patterns of single-use and throw-away materials and goods that are such a wasteful part of our economic model now,” he said
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