Another 5p.

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Starbucks is going to knock us for 5p per paper cup. We are already paying 5p per plastic carrier bag. Why are we paying for this? We consumers didnt ask suppliers to dispense with returnable glass bottles and paper bags and fill our lives with plastic. Having done so we now have to pay to get rid of it. It cant be impossible to make a recyclable coffee cup can it? I'm annoyed.

Bane of our lives: Everything is going up but our wages stay the same.

Because they are trying to reduce single use packaging?

Buy your own reusable, refillable cup, and you get a discount every time you use it.

I dont drink starbucks but if Costa take this on I will just buy one of their reusable cups.

We all need to take responsibility and this is a good way of getting people to realise the mess we are in. Take a reusable cup in.

They're not knocking me. Never bought a takeout tea or coffee in my entire life and I'm 44 years old.

Buy a reusable coffee cup then. It will soon have paid for itself if you have a daily coffee.

Any excuse to charge more! Exactly how is that 5p going to be spent? I know it's a faff, but make your own and take a flask.

Just take your own cup in?

The single use cups often don't get recycled, and if they do, recycling the cups still uses energy/costs money/is less enrionmentally efficient than reusing.

DH bought me a reusable Starbucks travel mug last Christmas. It cost £19.99! You could have rather a lot of 5p paper ones for that, so I don’t think it will make a difference to overall cup use in any meaningful way.

You can buy travel cups in B&M or ASDA for a couple of pounds! Just use those and take that every time. Saves money and the planet!

The thing is though that the likes of Starbucks have offered a discount for bringing in a reusable cup for a long time, with little to no positive effect.

Tell people you'll charge them and suddenly they are up in arms.

I can't get angry over £0.05 in a drive to reduce needless waste.

The industry is working on a recyclable paper cup. Costs money though. A lot.

I'm not flush enough to buy coffees in Starbucks, never mind the 5p.

Half the stuff you put into recycling already doesn’t get recycled. The planet is struggling. Buy a KeepCup and carry it around with you, it’ll be fine.

DH bought me a reusable Starbucks travel mug last Christmas. It cost £19.99! You could have rather a lot of 5p paper ones for that, so I don’t think it will make a difference to overall cup use in any meaningful way.

Starbucks also sell a reusable cup for £1. With the 25p discount for bringing your own cup in, four coffees in and you've started to save.

Or drink in.

DH bought me a reusable Starbucks travel mug last Christmas. It cost £19.99!

And you can get them elsewhere for a lot less. Coffee chains will happily fill cups from anywhere else, not just their branded ones. Anything which reduces single use coffee cups is a good thing.

Disposable coffee cups are made of composite materials, so very tricky and energy intensive to recycle. Buy a reusable one!

The 5p carrier bag charge has seen a huge drop in the number of bags given out and litter in the countryside and roadsides. We need the same for disposable cups.

Just get a re-usable cup- cheaper in the long run and better fir the environment, job done. They usually give a discount for using them.

Ok, now if I go out I'm having to take:

Bags in case I buy something
A cup in case I want a coffee to go
Metal straw/plate in case I want a cold drink or to eat off something

and the list will grow.

I leave the house with my phone and my keys. Thats it.

I'll pay the 5p's just for the convenience.

HopefuliyAnonymous

That'll be an insulated one, you can buy a reusable Starbucks cup that almost looks like the usual ones for like £1.

I’d like to know where all the money from the 5 pence bag charge is going, and also what companies like Starbucks will do with the extra 5 pence they’ll now be receiving.

I have never trusted these schemes. These corporations cannot be trusted, and routinely rip everyone off with tax avoidance and exploitation of workers. If the 5 pence schemes are genuinely helping the environment, then I wouldn’t object, but I until I know this for sure, I object the charges.

Wooly

I believe these are what we call first world problems...

I have often wondered whether you get the discount if you bring your own cup but drink in.

we are already paying 5p per plastic carrier bag

Not if you bring your own, which is the point of the whole thing - to change behaviour! I have not paid for a carrier bag once since the charge has been brought in. Don't you understand what it's all about?

I never “remembered” my reusable grocery bags until the fines for plastic ones started, even though there was a discount for bringing them before. Now I remember at least 3 of every 4 trips.

There’s tons of reseach on this, most people are too lazy to go out of their way for a tiny discount, but we sure respond to fines for being bad. We only have one planet; don’t be bad and you won’t pay the fine.