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County Cup Fee Has Gone into Effect
Good Times Santa Cruz ^ | July 2, 2022 | Todd Guild

Posted on 07/04/2022 12:17:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Beverages—not including those in reusable cups—purchased in unincorporated Santa Cruz County now have a 25-cent fee tacked onto the price

Starting today, anyone purchasing a beverage in the unincorporated parts of Santa Cruz County—and who didn’t bring their own reusable cup—will notice a 25-cent fee tacked onto the price.

That is due to the county’s new disposable cup fee, which was created to reduce the amount of single-use cups for hot and cold beverages going into landfills.

Approved in November 2019, the fee was delayed during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid adverse impacts on local businesses.

“Santa Cruz County is a leader in the efforts to reduce the flow of plastics and other disposable products into the environment,” said County Supervisor Zach Friend in a press release. “This is a common-sense measure that should help reduce the 5 million disposable cups that are thrown away each year in our county while raising funds for essential environmental clean-up programs in our area.”

The profits from the fee were originally slated to go to the businesses. Measure C, approved on June 7 by more than 69% of voters, mandates that the fee will be evenly split between the businesses and the county’s general fund after Jan. 1, 2023.

The cities of Watsonville and Santa Cruz have their own fees, charging 10 cents and 25 cents, respectively.

The ordinance impacts both permanent and temporary businesses, food trucks, events and other events where beverages are served.

Sellers may not waive or absorb the cup fees.

The fees will be identified on receipts, and customers must be notified of the fee on menus.

Under the ordinance, customers may bring reusable cups, and retailers must accept them unless the container is cracked, chipped or corroded. Retailers may also reject the cups if they are too big, too dirty or damaged or are made from inappropriate material.

For information, email zerowaste@santacruzcounty.us or call 454–2160.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; cup; taxes
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1 posted on 07/04/2022 12:17:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yet another reason not to let UCSC transients vote in county elections


2 posted on 07/04/2022 12:20:53 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: nickcarraway

What a way to introduce disease and pestilence into the general population.


3 posted on 07/04/2022 12:23:57 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Fast Food hardest Hit!


4 posted on 07/04/2022 12:24:05 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: nickcarraway

Seriously.

How does this STOP single cup use?

Especially with inflation already boosting the costs of drinks by almost whole dollars?

Note this will also greatly increase the use of water to wash dishes in a state that’s already got issues with the water supply!

But I’m sure they’ll put that money to good use supporting transgenders giving book readings to homeless people on the streets.


5 posted on 07/04/2022 12:25:00 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: nickcarraway

the fee was delayed during the Covid-19 pandemic to avoid adverse impacts on local businesses.

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But now adverse impacts on local businesses are ok.


6 posted on 07/04/2022 12:25:04 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: nickcarraway

The Commissars have spoken ... peasants bring your cups and bowls to get your gruel and water.


7 posted on 07/04/2022 12:26:18 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: nickcarraway

Now, will folks just supersize and share (beverages and viruses)?


8 posted on 07/04/2022 12:27:20 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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This is just like the stinking bag fee, replacing paper with the plastic THEN finding OMG the landfills are overrun with plastic that is NOT biodegradable it is such a shame that the people leading this nation are honestly the MOST STUPID among us!!!


9 posted on 07/04/2022 12:29:00 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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This won’t help anything except some fat cats who will now collect even more money.

The S.F. Bay Area had the worst litter I’ve ever seen anywhere in the U.S. I don’t see them breaking that habit.


10 posted on 07/04/2022 12:30:24 PM PDT by Allegra
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I do a lot of walking along busy roads around my neighborhood. I almost never see disposable paper cups on the roadside.

What I do see are a lot of empty beer cans, glass bottles and those airport-sized plastic "nips" bottles.


11 posted on 07/04/2022 12:32:35 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,420,405 active users on Truth Social)
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I think there also needs to be a fee for masks... they keep throwing them away... maybe we can have a 5 cent refund to encourage folks to pick them up and recycle...


12 posted on 07/04/2022 12:35:21 PM PDT by beaware (It's the seriousness of the Charge... and the Intent...)
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To: nickcarraway

Yet, billions of masks are thrown all over Kali.


13 posted on 07/04/2022 12:36:37 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: nickcarraway

Savages of all stripes.. Bring your own cup and smear your slovenly, disease ridden lifestyle all over the soda dispenser. Go.


14 posted on 07/04/2022 12:42:38 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: Lion Den Dan

My very first thought! If I was an employee I would refuse to handle a cup brought by a customer. 🤢


15 posted on 07/04/2022 12:43:15 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m old enough to remember when drinks were served in glass, tables had cloths on them, napkins were cotton and dinnerware was metal. Carryout drinks were in waxed paper containers. and that was in the cheap places.


16 posted on 07/04/2022 12:46:30 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Most of them are failed lawyers, who could cut it at the courthouse, with their hands out for kickbacks.


17 posted on 07/04/2022 12:50:27 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: nickcarraway
So, what is the definition of a "reusable cup" in the law? I have plastic "red" cups that I've used for more than a year in my bathroom -- they can be hand-washed and reused time and time again. I have also found uses for the soda cups provided at the CostCo food court and from fast food places (McDonalds and BK) that keeps them out of the waste stream.

It's like guns: it isn't the instrument, it's the humans who are thoughtless about the instrument.

18 posted on 07/04/2022 12:51:26 PM PDT by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: nickcarraway

I thought this was going to be a thread about baseball.

😆


19 posted on 07/04/2022 12:52:16 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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So there is a guy at the corner selling cups for a dime with out the beverage.........................

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Everyday-Disposable-Plastic-Cups-White-3-oz-100-count/12167406


20 posted on 07/04/2022 12:53:16 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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