‘It was a plague’: Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups
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theguardian.com
Killarney used to accept it as a price of being a tourist town: ubiquitous disposable coffee cups spilling from bins, littering roads and blighting the area’s national park.
The County Kerry town went through about 23,000 cups a week – more than a million a year – adding up to 18.5 tonnes of waste.
Not any more. Three months ago, Killarney became the first town in Ireland to phase out single-use coffee cups. If you want a takeaway coffee from a cafe or hotel, you must bring your own cup or pay a €2 deposit for a reusable cup that is returned when the cup is given back.
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€2 is also a pretty cheap souvenir of a trip. my mom would have collected one of each.
Yeah I'm 100% not giving that cup back and am collecting as many different ones as I can.
Admittedly I'll probably bring them home and never use them and throw them away in a few years because omg I have way to many cups I can't handle this anymore. But still.