Posted on 11/12/2019 5:45:59 PM PST by KingofZion
Next time you stop by a cafe and order a coffee to-go, you may need to BYOC.
Earlier this year, some Bay Area coffee shops got rid of disposable cups and now even more will require customers to either bring their own or “rent” a mug.
Berkeley is pioneering the new trend, having passed a disposable cup fee, and shops will begin charging customers 25 cents for every disposable cup used beginning this January.
Ahead of the change, the city has piloted a program that lets customers rent real mugs and be able to return them at 11 locations throughout the city, according to the Chronicle.
The trend is spreading to Palo Alto where they’ll implement the same policy in 2021, and perhaps San Francisco, where similar legislation has been proposed.
The change is inspired by a report by Oakland nonprofit For Here Please, which studied the environmental impact of cafes and estimates that coffee shops use anywhere from 1,500 to 4,000 disposable cups every week.
Several Berkeley shops began participating in a program with a Colorado start-up named Vessel that lets customers avoid the 25 cent fee and instead rent a cup, with a hefty $15 fee if it isn’t returned. Oakland coffee shop Perch offers yet another alternative, glass jars for rent for a much more affordable 50-cent deposit.
*** Despite the hypothesis that the change may burden shops, Perch states that it doesn’t take the staff much more time to clean jars than it does to restock disposables, but cafes without dishwashing capabilities would likely suffer.
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That’s going to be fun when the communicable diseases start to surface.
gawd! just how CRAZY can they get, anyway????????!
On the plus side, if they keep this up, they may make life so unbearable that the cost of homes will finally drop there.
A 3 cent tax on tea once started a rebellion.
It doesn’t take any longer to clean jars than restock disposables?
And people believe that shit?
That said, I just checked the online realtor sites for the current "value" of our house we sold a bit over a year ago. These sites tend to be overly optimistic (of course, they're bought and paid for by realtors). So, I was surprised to see the value of our Silicon Valley house dropped over 6% from the sales price and over 10% of the "values" posted last summer. We may have gotten out at a good time.
Well they can open up their big libtard mouth, tilt their head back and let the server pour scalding hot coffee down their throat! Who needs a cup.....
yeah cut out the middleman
Soon there will be fights because his cup is bigger than my cup!!!!
So, I can legally take a bodacious Obama in the street outside the coffee house, but cannot get my coffee in a disposable cup, right?
The big one will be a very just comeuppance.
“We may have gotten out at a good time.”
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And you even remembered to turn out the lights:)
About time.
This might be the last straw for these hats.
The take-out cup is American new religion
Aren’t these the folks that permit human feces and needles in the streets? Just legalized urinating in public?
And they ban plastic straws.
Now disposable coffee cups.
Wouldn’t you think that, at some point, common sense would prevail? Anyone...?
But it’s okay to defecate on the sidewalk and throw your used hypodermic needles on the street.
Punish the innocent.
Reward the guilty.
It’s the Democrat way.
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