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Heather Leeson, presenting a keep cup to Fianna Fail’s Jim O'Callaghan Photo: Aoife Cusack
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TDs line up to get Keep Cups and show support for Waste Reduction Bill

June 14th, 2018 Irish politicians lined up at Buswells Hotel yesterday to receive reusable coffee cups from the Sick of Plastic campaign and show their support for a Green Party Bill to tackle waste. Over 50 TDs were presented with ‘keep cups’ at the event yesterday by member of their Read more…

By Aoife Cusack, 5 yearsJune 14, 2018 ago
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Dublin City Council to ban disposable coffee cups in its offices

April 4th, 2018 Dublin City Council is set to bring in a ban on the use of disposable coffee cups and single-use plastics in its offices. The Council has agreed to set up an internal committee to review a blanket ban on disposable coffee cups in-house and areas within their Read more…

By Ramya Ramalingam, 5 yearsApril 4, 2018 ago
Single-use plastic cup on beach Photo: Øyvind Holmstad
Marine

Spanish tourist islands set to ban single-use plastics

February 1st, 2018 The cities of Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza are set to ban all single-use plastics in an effort to save the tourism industry on the Balearic Islands. The three tourist destinations are all included in plans from the Government of the Balearic Islands to outlaw the sale of single-use Read more…

By Ja Wei Lee, 5 yearsFebruary 1, 2018 ago
Disposible coffee cup
Feature

Solutions to our plastic problem: Lessons from Germany

January 19th, 2017 Once a staunchly tea-drinking nation, in recent years Ireland has progressively swayed further and further toward it’s more exotic cousin, coffee. The once-routine vocabulary of Builders Tea, English Breakfast and Earl Grey has been replaced with Flat Whites, Frappucinos, and Cortados. Coffee culture is now inexorably linked Read more…

By Ja Wei Lee, 5 yearsJanuary 19, 2018 ago
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