PoliticsChris Minns reverses takeaway-cup policy after media and business backlash

New South Wales will drop planned rules requiring cafes to offer mugs or glasses to dine-in customers and businesses to join a reusable-cup scheme, which carried a potential fine of up to A$110,000. Environment minister Penny Sharpe said the measures need not be mandatory. Requirements to accept customers’ clean reusable cups and make takeaway cups recyclable by 2028 will remain.

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