Korea's Ministry of Environment has scrapped plans to ban the use of paper cups following complaints from merchants and consumers. The government will instead recommend that businesses utilize multiuse cups.
More disposable plastics will disappear from convenience stores, coffee shops and restaurants Thursday, including single-use bags, straws and paper cups.
All single-use, disposable straws and bags and paper cups will be banned in convenience stores,coffee shops and restaurants starting Nov. 24.
More people are bringing their own cups to coffee shops as consumers become more conscious of environmental issues and companies promote campaigns to use less single-use plastic cups.
A takeaway coffee will cost you 300 won (25 cents) more from June when a new government charge on single-use cups kicks in, and coffee shop owners are not happy about it. “I will have to use the cash register every time someone hands me a...
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