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The international coffee shop Starbucks will start giving customers a if they bring their cups. The discount is part of a two-month in cafes in England. Starbucks said it wants to reduce the of waste and recycle more. The vice president of Starbucks UK said: "Starbucks is committed to increasing recycling and reusable cups are a key part of our waste reduction strategy." Bosses will look at the of the trial and then decide if they will continue it. The company wants to cut down on the number of paper cups that are put in the trash. Customers who bring their own mugs will get a discount on all drinks, for the cafe's cheaper filter coffee.

The of disposable paper cups has been in the in England a lot . Around 2.5 billion of them are thrown away every year – that's about seven cups every day. Journalists have said that some coffee chains lie about how many paper cups they recycle. The say the companies do not recycle as many cups as they say they do. This means customers believe that a coffee shop is environmentally . A recycling service in the UK said that than one in 400 paper cups at coffee shop chains are recycled. One coffee drinker said she would now bring her own cup. She said: "I am that cafes recycle so little. I thought they were more ."

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