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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.