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World Service,05 Jan 2018,26 mins

Call for 'Latte Levy' to Cut Cup Waste in UK

World Business Report

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MPs are calling for a $0.35 'latte levy' on disposable coffee cups in the UK. We get reaction to the proposal from Trewin Restorick of environmental charity the Hubbub Foundation. Also in the programme, Angola is breaking its currency's peg to the US Dollar. Marcus Weimer is an independent analyst of sub-Saharan African economies, and explains the implications of the move. We have a report from Kolkata, India, on a burgeoning quiz competition industry in the country. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Sujeet Indap, editor of Lex US at the Financial Times in New York, and Swaha Pattanaik, economics editor of Reuters Breaking Views in London. (Picture: Coffee cups. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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