A blanket 'bring or buy' reusable scheme has been introduced in the town, which was getting through 23,000 cups a week 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.
'It was a plague': Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups
The Guardian - 14 Oct 2023 16:00
A blanket 'bring or buy' reusable scheme has been introduced in the town, which was getting through 23,000 cups a week 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.
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