Latte Levy News Today

Almost 50 businesses in Killarney have signed up to become completely free of single use coffee cups in a bid to make the town the first in Ireland to move to reusable coffee cups.

Restaurant owner Peter Shanahan says businesses like his have done all they can to work sustainably and the new coffee cup levy will hurt that effort.

Legislation to create the so-called ‘latte levy’ was signed into law in recent weeks.

A so-called latte levy is being considered by the Government.

The 20c levy will not apply to reusable coffee cups.

The levy will be brought in as part of the government’s new Circular Economy Bill.

Cups are both plastic and paper so cant be recycled. so we want to put pressure on the manufacturers to produce disposable recyclable cups and consumers to reuse re-yob usabl cups. having to pay more, maybe they would bring their own cups. >> we took to the streets of london to see what coffee drinkers thought about this latte levy. >> i tried to recycle them, but i found out that theyre not recyclable, which is a bit of a shock. so im a business disappointed that its not actually recyclable. >>...