Laois Council Council and 2GoCup are launching a major new environmental campaign to dramatically reduce single-use coffee cups in Laois.
During a three-month pilot project six participating cafes will offer option of reusable 2GoCups.
As part of this environmentally friendly campaign, these cafes will each receive 500 cups free from Laois City Council and 2GoCup.
A customer will pay €1 to ‘borrow’ the 2GoCup and this will be refunded when they return the receptacle.
Or alternatively, they can swap it for free for a similar cup at any of the participating businesses.
Disposable coffee cups are a considerable source of litter that their volunteers of Portlaoise Tidy Towns pick up weekly.
Speaking following the launch of the campaign, Suzanne Dempsey, Environmental Awareness Officer with Laois City Council stated: “Disposable coffee cups are increasingly popular, and we need to come up with alternatives as in Ireland, we dispose of 200 million coffee cups every year.
“That’s a whopping 560,000 each day going to landfill or incineration.”
Commenting on the local involvement in the campaign Ms. Dempsey pointed out: “Disposable coffee cups are a considerable source of litter that their volunteers of Portlaoise Tidy Towns pick up weekly.
There are huge environmental consequences with this in terms of litter, waste and climate.
I commend the six local businesses involved in the project who are leading the way in bringing about a local circular economy”.
The businesses taking part in the three-month pilot project are: The Pantry; Café Latte ; The Bay Tree ; Supervalu ; Chocolate Brown ; Square Coffee
This campaign is being supported by the Laois County Council and Portlaoise Tidy Towns.
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