Mp's Want A Levy On Take Away Coffee

[emmie]

as if it's not expensive enough. Surely there must be a better way to dispose of all these billions of coffee non disposable cups.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42564948

[New Judge]

The simplest solution is to ban takeaway coffee. There is no need for people to drink coffee in the street. If they are buying it to consume in a building other than the coffee house they are daft because (a) it gets cold by the time they drink it and (b) a kettle and a jar of instant are far more convenient.

[ummmm]

Pathetic and sad? Are you for real?

[mccfluff]

well the nearest costa to me, is over the road, literally, so i can go out buy a coffee come back to my desk and carry on working with a nice hot decent cup of coffee. Instant coffee isn't that great.

[pastafreak]

//There is no need for people to drink coffee in the street. //

There's no need for people to do a lot of things, but we don't ban them. I wouldn't want to live in your ideal society.

[emmie]

I like my coffee sitting down, preferably at home in a mug or cup,

[Mamyalynne]

You could go 'hands free' then you could juggle as you walked and annoy even more people than are already down on things.

https://tinyurl.com/yctemg55

[Cloverjo]

https://mobile.twitter.com/gilescoren/status/949268976676343813/photo/1

This seems like a good compromise.

[emmie]

mamy
could work but you might get some funny looks,

[Mamyalynne]

Used to that already.

[New Judge]

"There's no need for people to do a lot of things, but we don't ban them."

Agreed. I was responding to the question about MPs wanting to cure a problem that, in my view, is not a problem at all. Their stock answer (to almost everything) is to tax it. I'm not particularly fussed about takeaway coffee cups being used. So long as they are disposed of neatly and not just chucked in the road they can simply be scooped up and dumped in a landfill site. There are plenty of holes in the ground, disused mines and places around the coast that need reclaiming from the sea.

Putting 5p tax on the cup will not go anyway to cure the problem. Anybody willing to pay two to three quid for a cup of coffee will not stop drinking it because it goes up by 5p. If takeaway coffee is that much of a problem and since it's unnecessary then simply ban it. Personally I'd far rather see McDonald's burger wrappers taxed because people who drink coffee seem, in the main, to dispose of their cups thoughtfully whereas those who eat burgers seem to chuck their wrappers wherever they happen to finish (or tire of) their "meal".

[emmie]

NJ
we are talking of 25p per cup, a not inconsiderable tax,

[Bathsheba]

kval....where does it say drinking coffee is a cardinal sin?
Shame this, cos I always liked you, as you said the same thing to me yesterday.

Baths
x x x

[ummmm]

Get over yourself, Baths.

[Bathsheba]

I meant beards and topknots.

[jackthehat]

Starbucks need to sort out the coffee-cup problem using some of its' vast untaxed profits.

Have they ever addressed the issue of their phenomenal and needless water-wastage?

[Zacs-Master]

Bit late to the debate but as someone who consumes about 3 cups of coffee per year from high street shops, I agree with NJ. I cannot understand the culture of spending several quid on a bucketful of hot water. You're on the high street mate, not trekking through the Sahara!

Having said that, I don't see pavements littered with dozens of discarded cups.

[Bathsheba]

ummm, seriously, I need to talk to you. Could I send you a mssg on FB?

[emmie]

zacs that is because there is an army of street cleaners clearing up our mess.

[EcclesCake]

Email her Bathsheba.

[emmie]

I do see them perched on top of bins, and any place the lazy can find to stash them. But our cleaners are pretty good in the capital, they have to be as the mass of humanity passes through its doors every day.