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There was a motion a few months back (maybe last year actually), to put a charge on takeaway cups, as with plastic bags, but it was dismissed as Starbucks and Costa were seen to be "doing enough" with their discounts for bringing your own cup.
It's quite a big initial outlay for indy coffee shops to buy the stock of reusable cups and then the pressure of having to shift them too, when you're already working with a low margins. At the cafe I used to work in, I would incentivise purchasing a keep cup by giving people a free coffee when you purchased one, and then calculating the time before it paid for itself if you got 20p off per coffee, worked pretty well.
Takeaway cups are generally still considered such standard practice that many coffee shops don't even consider them as a cost to the business, because of the perceived loss of custom without them.
My 2 pence :)
edit you're not wrong. Most are un-recyclable, and the ones that are compostable currently need to be disposed of in separate waste to go to a commercial composting facility (this rarely happens), although this is changing and you may soon be able to put them in the garden/food waste bins.