The first town in Ireland to ban single-use coffee cups has called on the Government to catch up and implement the ‘latte Levy’ nationwide.
The first town in Ireland to ban single-use coffee cups has called on the Government to catch up and implement the
The levy would add a 20c charge to the price of a drink if it is served in a single-use disposable cup.Killian Treacy, owner of LUNA Coffee + Wine, said business owners in Killarney feel “let down” by the Government’s inaction. “The project is going very well, but in order to sustain this long term, we can't depend on public goodwill forever.Mr Treacy said Killarney’s latte levy has prevented over one million coffee cups from ending up in landfill or as litter in the town.
“It’s a €2 deposit ,” he said. “You can walk down the street and hand the cup back into any coffee shop here in Killarney and get your money back.”Compostable coffee cups, according to Mr Treacy, are not as effective as a latte levy since Ireland does not yet have proper compost facilities.“A lot of the coffee cups that you see as compostable and recyclable are both made up of paper and plastic, so they can't actually be recycled,” he said.
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