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Introduce tax on disposable coffee cups to reduce waste
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86 signatures
What the petition asks
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.
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.
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
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
Timeline
| 13 Jan 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 2 May 2017 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
86
Status
Closed
Opened
13 Jan 2017
Closed
2 May 2017
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