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The UK is considering a levy of 25 pence, or 34 cents, on plastic covered cups that cannot easily be recycled.

Billions of these type of cups are sold every year, around the world and mostly to coffee drinkers.

Trewin Restorick is the chief executive of the Hubbub Foundatiion, an environmental charity which has been campaigning for a change to the way we use paper cups coated with plastic.

(Picture: Plastic covered cups of coffee. Getty Images.)