Ditch your plastic cups and take tea in china
SIR – You report (November 22) that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs uses 1,400 disposable coffee cups a day. Might I suggest a return to china?
Employees should bring their own cup into work for filling up at the coffee urn or canteen, and wash it up afterwards.
Deborah Cameron Moore
Foxwood, Newick
SIR – To reduce plastic waste, I suggest that everyone in the country should refrain from buying bottled water. After all, water is freely available from any tap.
Benjamin Davies
Oxshott, Surrey SIR – If we want to tackle plastic pollution, we need to draw attention to its use in the hotel and cosmetic industries.
Hotel rooms provide guests with kettles that rely on single-use plastic coffee filters, lids and stirrers; the same applies to their supply of toiletries. Look at any cosmetics shelf in any chemist, and consider what ends up discarded. Nail polish bottles and tops cannot be recycled. What about lipstick containers, or serum capsules?
The beauty industry is overdue in addressing the plastic waste involved.
Diana R Lord
Cockfosters, Hertfordshire