Petition Introduce tax on disposable coffee cups to reduce waste

2,500,000,000 disposable coffee cups are thrown away in the UK each year.

1 in 400 are recycled. The coffee industry and chains are NOT doing enough voluntarily to reduce waste. The tax for plastic bags worked-use fell massively. Let's consider the environment and do the same with coffee cups.

More details

We need to start reducing our waste now before it is too late.

100,000 trees are used for the cups each year:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/05/uks-billions-of-takeaway-cups-could-each-take-30-years-to-break-down

Ministers reject coffee cup tax despite massive wastage: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/31/ministers-reject-calls-for-charge-on-disposable-coffee-cups

Plastic bag reductions: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36917174

This petition closed early because of a General Election Find out more on the Petitions Committee website

86 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 86 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 3 May 2017
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.