I’m ready to be proven wrong by the ‘latte levy’
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Bosch-inspired dreams, small imps dressed in Costa uniforms frisby coffee-cup lids at to-go cup drinkers’ heads for a length of time determined by the aggregate number of coffee cups they’ve drunk from, multiplied by 30 years. My initial reaction to The Independent’s findings that 55 per cent of our readers support the introduction of a 25p tax on a single disposable cup, and 55 per cent say they would be happy to bring their own reusable cups, wasn’t one of hope. There is also no other substitute to plastic-lined cups at a similarly low price; consumers would happily cough up the small charge instead of buying a more expensive reusable cup. Five pence isn’t much money on top of a weekly shopping bill, but when it was introduced in October 2016, single-use bag consumption dropped by a whopping 85 per cent.
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