Publication - Impact assessment

Single-Use Disposable Beverage Cups Charge: Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment

Published: 22 August 2024
From: Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781836015598

A partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment, to support the consultation on the proposed implementation of charging for single-use disposable beverage cups in Scotland.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Zero Waste Scotland (2022) Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland (Report)

2 Applying the waste hierarchy: guidance, Scottish Government

3 Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009

4 Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill

5 European Union (2019) Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (Text with EEA relevance)

6 Scottish Government, Single-Use Disposable Cups Charge Advisory Group[website] (Accessed 22/01/2024)

7 Zero Waste Scotland (2022) Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland (Report)

8 Scottish Government, Environmental charging and other measures: expert panel [website] (Accessed 22/01/2024)

9 Single-use disposable cups: EPECOM recommendations

10 How Incentive Framing Can Harness the Power of Social Norms. Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes: Volume 151, Lieberman, A., et. al, 2019, Science Direct

11 Zero Waste Scotland (2015) Carrier bag charge ‘one year on’ report

12 Official Census and Labour Market Statistics, NOMIS

13 2022 is the latest available year for data for both business counts and numbers of employees.

14 Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland, Zero Waste Scotland, 2022

15 The out of home environment, Food Standards Scotland, 2021

16 Approximated Social Grade data, ONS, 2023

17 The Out of Home Environment in Scotland (2021), Food Standards Scotland, 2022

18 Ibid

19 Longer-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dietary purchasing choices of British households, IFS, 2024

20 Brexit inflation: The role of trade policy uncertainty in increasing UK import, CEPR, 2023

21 Explainer: Cost of living crisis, Institute for Government, 2022

22 GDP and events in history: how the COVID-19 pandemic shocked the UK economy, ONS, 2022

23 Consumer price inflation, ONS, 2024

24 Average weekly earnings, ONS, 2024

25 Consumer price inflation, UK: May 2024, ONS, June 2024

26 United Kingdom Food Inflation, Trading Economics

27 United Kingdom Services Inflation, Trading Economics

28 Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland, Zero Waste Scotland, 2022

29 Ibid

30 Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009

31 Climate Change Plan: The Third Report on Proposals and Policies 2018-2032, Scottish Government

32 UN Sustainable Development Goals

33 Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation, Scottish Government, 2022

34 Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

35 Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill, Policy Memorandum, Scottish Parliament, 2023 – paragraph 63

36 European Union (2019) Directive (EU) 2019/904 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (Text with EEA relevance)

37 Switching to reusable cups – examples from Scotland and beyond, Zero Waste Scotland, 2023

38 5p paper cup charge, Starbucks

39 Influences on single-use and reusable cup use: a multidisciplinary mixed-methods approach to designing interventions reducing plastic waste, Allison AL et al. , UCL Press, 2021

40 Why consumers shift from single-use to reusable drink cups: An empirical application of the stage model of self-regulated behavioural change, Keller, E. et al. , Science Direct, 2021

41 Single-use Plastic Products (Scotland) Regulations 2021, Zero Waste Scotland, 2023

42 EPECOM - Rapid Review of Charging for Disposable Coffee Cups and other Waste Minimisation Measure, Scottish Government, 2019

43 Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland (Report), Zero Waste Scotland, 2022

44 EPECOM - Rapid Review of Charging for Disposable Coffee Cups and other Waste Minimisation Measure, Scottish Government, 2019

45 Scottish Litter Survey 2023, Keep Scotland Beautiful

46 Composition of Litter in Scotland, Keep Scotland Beautiful, 2016

47 Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups - Second Report of Session 2017-19, Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons, 2018

48 Population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2021, ONS, 2022

49 Consumption of Single-use Disposable Beverage Cups in Scotland, Zero Waste Scotland, 2022

50 Disposable Coffee Cups: Why Are They a Problem, and What Can Be Done?, Lenaghan, M., Zero Waste Scotland, 2017

51 Disposable Packaging: Coffee Cups - Second Report of Session 2017-19, Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons, 2018

52 Marine litter plastics and microplastics and their toxic chemicals components: the need for urgent preventive measures, Gallow, F. et al, Environmental Sciences Europe, Volume 30, 2018

53 Circular economy and waste route map to 2030: consultation, Scottish Government, 2024

54 National Performance Framework, Scottish Government

55 National Outcome: We value and enjoy our built environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations, Scottish Government

56 National Outcome: We reduce the local and global environmental impact of our consumption and production, Scottish Government

57 National Performance Framework, Scottish Government

58 Single-Use Disposable Cups Charge Advisory Group

59 Single-use disposable beverage cups: EPECOM recommendations, 2019

60 Single-use disposable beverage cups: EPECOM recommendations, 2019

61 Examples of businesses moving away from single-use (zerowastescotland.org.uk)

62 Zero Waste Scotland (2022). Consumption of single-use disposable beverage cups in Scotland

63 Zero Waste Scotland: Switching to reusable cups – examples from Scotland and beyond. Accessed February 2024.

64 University Crosshouse Hospital report: NHS Reusable Cups Trial, 2019

65 EU Directive on Single-Use Plastics

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