Rejected petition Consider putting a charge on "disposable" paper coffee cups in cafes.

10,000 coffee cups are used in the UK every 2 minutes.
Whilst they say they are recyclable ... Only two plants in the UK will accept these cups for recycling.
It's killing our plannet.
Let's financially deter people from doing it.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/124980

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Date submitted 28 July 2016
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