{"id":6520,"date":"2019-01-20T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T11:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/single-use-coffee-cups-wales-urged-to-bring-in-latte-levy\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T11:27:29","slug":"single-use-coffee-cups-wales-urged-to-bring-in-latte-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/single-use-coffee-cups-wales-urged-to-bring-in-latte-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-use coffee cups: Wales urged to bring in ‘latte levy’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A “latte levy” on disposable coffee cups should be introduced in Wales to reduce waste, campaigners have said.<\/p>\n

UK ministers rejected calls for a 25p charge per single-use cup in the Autumn Budget, proposing a plastic packaging tax instead.<\/p>\n

Charity City to Sea<\/a> now wants the Welsh Government to take the lead, as it did with the 5p carrier bag charge<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n

Welsh ministers said they would continue to consider the matter and monitor voluntary action by businesses.<\/p>\n

But City to Sea founder Natalie Fee said the issue was urgent and the Autumn Budget was a “very diluted tax” that would not change people’s behaviour.<\/p>\n

“It’s been shown with the 5p bag charge – that when a charge is introduced at the point of sale – that it drastically reduces consumption,” she added.<\/p>\n

“So not just [a focus] on recycling, because that’s still using tonnes of plastic, it’s still using tonnes of paper. <\/p>\n

“Whereas when people are actually encouraged to bring a cup with them to a coffee shop and reuse, we are reducing resources and we’re reducing plastic use.”<\/p>\n

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About 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups, most of which are a combination of paper and plastic, are used in the UK each year. <\/p>\n

Starbucks, Costa, Pret a Manger, Greggs and Caffe Nero all offer discounts on coffee bought in reusable cups in a bid to cut waste.<\/p>\n

Neil Whittall, from the Paper Cup Alliance which represents leading UK paper cup manufacturers, called a “latte levy” unnecessary as its cups were 100% recyclable and consumers wanted more recycling.<\/p>\n

“The industry has come together in force to improving recovering and recycling of paper cups. That’s a better way for the consumer to be treated and the industry is committed to increasing those rates,” he said.<\/p>\n

He warned a tax could prompt huge job losses in the coffee market and said on-the-go coffee cups and plastic bags were difficult to compare. <\/p>\n

The Welsh Government said it was “working closely with UK government on the forthcoming packaging tax consultation to ensure that the Welsh Government continues to be a part of the engagement, policy development and implementation processes for any taxation measure in this area”.<\/p>\n

A spokesman said ministers could seek powers that included a tax on single-use cups, but wanted to assess the evidence in a UK government consultation first to ensure any approach “works for Wales”.<\/p>\n

Sunday Politics Wales<\/a> is on BBC One Wales at 11:00 GMT on 20 January.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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