Cork City Council is willing to support the elimination of takeaway cups from the city centre, but the initiative must be led by businesses, council management has said.<\/p>\n
Social Democrats councillor Niamh O\u2019Connor and Labour councillor Ciara O\u2019Connor tabled a motion, asking the council to begin a consultation period to introduce a coffee-cup deposit scheme to eliminate single-use takeaway coffee and tea cups in the city.<\/p>\n
This scheme, similar to the one in place in Killarney, would see people either pay a deposit of a few euro for a reusable cup (when ordering a takeaway drink), or bring their own one.<\/p>\n
David Joyce, the council\u2019s director of emergency services and climate action, said that there has been mixed success with these schemes.<\/p>\n
\u201cKillarney offers an example of a successful reusable-coffee-cup scheme, where almost 50 businesses have replaced single-use cups with a deposit-and-return scheme for takeaway drinks.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis initiative is led by the local business community and is a voluntary initiative, requiring individual businesses to opt to sign up to the scheme.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cSuch initiatives have to be business-led and require significant support and commitment from businesses in order to succeed.”\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThus, the success of a reusable-coffee-cup scheme in Cork city would depend on voluntary, widespread participation from local businesses. The city council is ready to support business-representative organisations or groups of businesses who wish to lead this type of initiative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork City Council is willing to support the elimination of takeaway cups from the city centre, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,6037,61,60],"class_list":["post-407712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-city-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}