I own keep-cups but the coffee tastes better or is more satisfying from a paper cup ☕️
One benefit about working in tech is the endless amounts of coffee cups you get from companies!
Make it look like you’re doing something while doing nothing.
Maybe they’ll spend those 20 cents cleaning up every roadway hedge and street in the country that’s strewn with rubbish.
Planet saved.
Are shops accepting keep cups and the like again? I know they stopped during covid.
They love tackling shit that no one really cares about. Fuck all the really important stuff, instead we will increase a tax under the guise of helping climate change.
I have four empty coffee cups in my car. Time to buy a reusable one I thinks.
Well of course it does.
Do we even have street sweepers anymore. Only people I ever see cleaning up are the tidy towns crew.
Lads. Multiple keep cups in your collection is probably worse than constantly using paper cups. Get 1 good keep cup and look after it. Get a full year from the cup and you’re making a difference. Buy a new one every month in Mr Price(but dis wuns shaped like a pineapple ha). You’re better off on the paper.
Government overreach strikes again ! I can see a lawsuit that may well cost the state it’s sovereignty.
Aren’t most coffee cups compostable? My usual coffee is really cheap and even it is fully compostable
3 years ago, I was working in a large corporation, with over 2000 employees in Dublin offices. An activist team, managed to convince the company to get 1 reusable cup for every one of us. 2 months later, 1 out of 20 people were using it in the coffee shop (internal). I had my own even before that, like few other people. Most of the others kept the same habit, of using paper cups. That is a shame.
Government overreach my bollox. If people could not behave like animals your government wouldn’t need to do this.
This is a great Bill. Litter is a scourge on any environment
That will lower the fuel costs and sort out the housing crisis
This is like the plastic bag levy, plastic bags used to be a real litter problem but now you don’t see them anymore. But I live in the country and starting to see coffee cups, takeaway stuff (always supermacs) and monster cans dumped along every verge. It is really horrible. There are pluses and minuses to the move but overall I am for it, I really am hoping it will change peoples’s behaviour and I am not a fan of Eamonn Ryan’s. Sadly I think it will slightly reduce the stuff being littered but it will just change what gets dropped.
The maths on the sustainability of “Bags for Life” are ropey and I imagine it is the same for a Keep Cup.
I would prefer that the government, opposition TDs and local authorities simply stopped objecting to wind farms and interconnectors instead of these token gestures that don’t necessarily have a positive impact.
Good idea, many coffee places were already giving a discount for using a keep cup before covid. I wonder if compostable cups are included here.
I’d really love to see a push on supermarkets to move towards refillable’s for things like hand soap, softener etc etc etc etc.
Silly question, but say you’re on the road and want to stop for coffee but your reusable cup hasn’t been cleaned out from using it last, what do you do in the shop? Fill it up with a drop of hot water in the shop and pour it into the sponge thing of the machine?
Those compostable ones seemed like a good idea, if we had compost bins in public along side normal bins it could help a lot. I’ve seen lots of other countries do it.
No reason why 90% of things can’t be recycled or just ban single-use plastics. Ireland’s population of 5 million, Germany has about 80 million and recycles 65% right now, copy them.
Not sure why they keep targeting the coffee cup in their recycling messaging, coffee shops moved to compostable and are now moving to all paper cups, while also encouraging bring your own.
Why is there absolutely nothing happening for grocery stores and impulse brands that generate far more single use waste?
Honestly it’s this personal responsibility ballix that is the reason we are so far behind on our climate goals. Yes everyone thinks littering is disgusting. However schemes like this allow the government to claim an air of climate legitimacy without actually tackling any of the real issues. Typical Irish government approach of doing things that have little to no appreciable benefit for the climate whilst simultaneously letting them feel morally good and increase the tax take(bonus). Remember 71 percent of global carbon emissions are produced by 100 multinational corporations. If they really wanted change they would put carbon Levies directly on those companies.
When I get a coffee and I dont have to walk far, I refuse the lid. Helps reduce waste
Cant they just pour it directly in my mouth and drop me off at ER after
Good news. They should be banded entirely. A lot of people act like the waste of disposables is just that they’re thrown out afterward but the waste is in the manufacturing. For the hundreds of cups that fill park bins everywhere hundreds more need to be manufactured and flown here just to be thrown out all over again.
Research what sort of cup to get before you buy one though. What size coffee do you normally drink? How important is heat retention etc.
It’s the plastic lids that bother me.
Congrats. You have managed to charge us all extra for paper cups but you can’t fix the housing crisis or any other pressing issues society is faced with.
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I own keep-cups but the coffee tastes better or is more satisfying from a paper cup ☕️
One benefit about working in tech is the endless amounts of coffee cups you get from companies!
Make it look like you’re doing something while doing nothing.
Maybe they’ll spend those 20 cents cleaning up every roadway hedge and street in the country that’s strewn with rubbish.
Planet saved.
Are shops accepting keep cups and the like again? I know they stopped during covid.
They love tackling shit that no one really cares about. Fuck all the really important stuff, instead we will increase a tax under the guise of helping climate change.
I have four empty coffee cups in my car. Time to buy a reusable one I thinks.
Well of course it does.
Do we even have street sweepers anymore. Only people I ever see cleaning up are the tidy towns crew.
Lads. Multiple keep cups in your collection is probably worse than constantly using paper cups. Get 1 good keep cup and look after it. Get a full year from the cup and you’re making a difference. Buy a new one every month in Mr Price(but dis wuns shaped like a pineapple ha). You’re better off on the paper.
Government overreach strikes again ! I can see a lawsuit that may well cost the state it’s sovereignty.
Aren’t most coffee cups compostable? My usual coffee is really cheap and even it is fully compostable
3 years ago, I was working in a large corporation, with over 2000 employees in Dublin offices. An activist team, managed to convince the company to get 1 reusable cup for every one of us. 2 months later, 1 out of 20 people were using it in the coffee shop (internal). I had my own even before that, like few other people. Most of the others kept the same habit, of using paper cups. That is a shame.
Government overreach my bollox. If people could not behave like animals your government wouldn’t need to do this.
This is a great Bill. Litter is a scourge on any environment
That will lower the fuel costs and sort out the housing crisis
This is like the plastic bag levy, plastic bags used to be a real litter problem but now you don’t see them anymore. But I live in the country and starting to see coffee cups, takeaway stuff (always supermacs) and monster cans dumped along every verge. It is really horrible. There are pluses and minuses to the move but overall I am for it, I really am hoping it will change peoples’s behaviour and I am not a fan of Eamonn Ryan’s. Sadly I think it will slightly reduce the stuff being littered but it will just change what gets dropped.
The maths on the sustainability of “Bags for Life” are ropey and I imagine it is the same for a Keep Cup.
https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/
I would prefer that the government, opposition TDs and local authorities simply stopped objecting to wind farms and interconnectors instead of these token gestures that don’t necessarily have a positive impact.
Good idea, many coffee places were already giving a discount for using a keep cup before covid. I wonder if compostable cups are included here.
I’d really love to see a push on supermarkets to move towards refillable’s for things like hand soap, softener etc etc etc etc.
Silly question, but say you’re on the road and want to stop for coffee but your reusable cup hasn’t been cleaned out from using it last, what do you do in the shop? Fill it up with a drop of hot water in the shop and pour it into the sponge thing of the machine?
Those compostable ones seemed like a good idea, if we had compost bins in public along side normal bins it could help a lot. I’ve seen lots of other countries do it.
No reason why 90% of things can’t be recycled or just ban single-use plastics. Ireland’s population of 5 million, Germany has about 80 million and recycles 65% right now, copy them.
Not sure why they keep targeting the coffee cup in their recycling messaging, coffee shops moved to compostable and are now moving to all paper cups, while also encouraging bring your own.
Why is there absolutely nothing happening for grocery stores and impulse brands that generate far more single use waste?
Honestly it’s this personal responsibility ballix that is the reason we are so far behind on our climate goals. Yes everyone thinks littering is disgusting. However schemes like this allow the government to claim an air of climate legitimacy without actually tackling any of the real issues. Typical Irish government approach of doing things that have little to no appreciable benefit for the climate whilst simultaneously letting them feel morally good and increase the tax take(bonus). Remember 71 percent of global carbon emissions are produced by 100 multinational corporations. If they really wanted change they would put carbon Levies directly on those companies.
When I get a coffee and I dont have to walk far, I refuse the lid. Helps reduce waste
Cant they just pour it directly in my mouth and drop me off at ER after
Good news. They should be banded entirely. A lot of people act like the waste of disposables is just that they’re thrown out afterward but the waste is in the manufacturing. For the hundreds of cups that fill park bins everywhere hundreds more need to be manufactured and flown here just to be thrown out all over again.
Research what sort of cup to get before you buy one though. What size coffee do you normally drink? How important is heat retention etc.
It’s the plastic lids that bother me.
Congrats. You have managed to charge us all extra for paper cups but you can’t fix the housing crisis or any other pressing issues society is faced with.