I said can....and I’m certain I can find you a coffee which is more than a beer in Brighton. Besides, my point was less this and more that coffee is now dearer and a huge business.
I don’t think anyone is suggested this. But if you know you will have a coffee on over 170 mornings of the year on the way to work, like me, then it’s no big deal popping a cup in the bag I use for work.
Apologies if I wasn’t clear. I have a glass and plastic re-usable cup which I typically carry with me on work days. If I need a take-away coffee and don’t have this cup with me I go to a place which uses disposable re-cyclable cups.
If someone had said, 20 years ago, that the future will be bursting at the seams with coffee which can cost the same price as a beer you’d have been carted off.
I think this is a good idea, and one of my local coffee shops does use recyclable cups and I do use them. But my personal situation is that as I buy a take-away coffee every morning (at the very least) I could not see any argument against buying a reusable cup. Over 200 of my cups a year just...
Deposits on beer “glasses” are common practice here in bars, concert venue and football grounds. At the football many get left for kids to collect and earn a few quid. The majority of glass and plastic bottles have deposits which are redeemable at supermarkets as well.
Latte levy: could 25p charge fix our throwaway habits? Proposal to tackle tide of takeaway cups heading for landfill gets mixed reaction.
This surely has to be a good thing? I’d also add in a tax rebate for those using a re-usable cup...