Publication - Impact assessment

Single-Use Disposable Beverage Cups Charge: Equality Impact Assessment – Interim Report

Published: 22 August 2024
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781836015284

An interim Equality Impact Assessment Report, to support the consultation on the proposed implementation of charging for single-use disposable beverage cups in Scotland.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

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

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

3 Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (legislation.gov.uk)

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 Single-Use Disposable Cups Charge Advisory Group, Scottish Government

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

8 Environmental charging and other measures: expert panel, Scottish Government

9 Single-use disposable cups: EPECOM recommendations, Scottish Government, 2019

10 How Incentive Framing Can Harness the Power of Social Norms. Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Lieberman, A., Duke, K., & Amir., O., 2019

11 Single-Use Disposable Cups Charge Advisory Group, Scottish Government

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

Contact

Email: supd@gov.scot

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