Britain Considers a 'Latte Levy' to Cut the Use of Coffee Cups

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Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Britain Considers a 'Latte Levy' to Try to Cut the Use of Coffee Cups. New York Times, Jan 6, 2018.

Two consecutive paragraphs:

"On Friday [Jan 5], a parliamentary committee in Britain issued a report recommending a hefty tax of 25 pence, or 34 cents, for every cup sold. Dubbed the 'latte levy,' the fee would amount to around 10 percent on every cup of coffee sold, presumably a painful enough charge to induce people to carry around thier own reusable cups.

"Disposable cups are often laminated with plastic or polyethylene to make them waterproof. But traditional paper mills recycling facilities are not equipped for the complex process of stripping plastic away. Instead the containers end up in landfill or are burned in incinerators

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest of this report.
(b) penny (British decimal coin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(British_decimal_coin)
("The correct plural form for multiple 1p coins is pennies (eg fifty pennies). The correct term for monetary amounts of pennies greater than 1p is pence (eg one pound and twenty pence)" )

In US, the word pence is not used.
(c) English dictionary:
* latte (n; abbreviation of [Italian] caffè latte, from Italian [noun masculine] caffè coffee + [noun masculine] latte milk, from Latin [noun neuter] lac, lactis [lactis is genitive singular of lac])
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/latte
(d)
(i) How to Recycle Paper Cups. Earth 9-1-1, undated
https://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-paper-cups/
("unfortunately recycling at this point is basically nonexistent in the US. That’s because all cups are lined with a thin coating of plastic that can’t be easily separated during the recycling process. The most innovation on paper cup disposal has come in the field of composting")
(ii) plastic recycling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling
(section 6 Plastic identification code: 2 for High-density polyethylene and 4 for Low-density polyethylene)