# Chris Minns reverses takeaway-cup policy after media and business backlash

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- The Guardian, 2026-10-28 00:38 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/28/chris-minns-backflips-disposable-coffee-cups-nsw-politics

> 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.