So far, since 2018, 5.4 million used cups have been given a new longer life as a Circular Reusable Cup.
We've got a huge range of amazing reusable cups on offer in our stores, but our rCUP is a little bit different.Ĭreated by Circular&Co, the Circular Cup (rCUP) is a reusable cup made from single-use paper cups. And, to help encourage our customers to carry a cup with them, our reusable cups come in lots of different sizes and colours – whatever your style, there’s something to suit everyone. We're dedicated to increasing recycling, but we ultimately believe that encouraging reuse is the best way forward for a more sustainable future.Īs part of an introductory offer to our Costa Club Loyalty scheme, every time you buy a barista made drink in a reusable cup before 31st March 2022, we’ll give you an extra bean.* This means after only four drinks in a reusable cup, you’ll earn one for free! Learn more about the Costa Club and sign up here. We are also thrilled that the scheme is now supported by more of the UK’s leading coffee brands, as we know that working in collaboration is the best way to increase recycling rates. We have since recycled over 155 million cups via the scheme and have seen more places like offices, shopping centres, universities, transport hubs and local councils providing cup recycling facilities. Through this scheme, we pay waste collectors an incentive for every tonne of cups they collect, which helps to fund the right infrastructure and processes for cups to be recovered for recycling. Not satisfied with stopping there, just two years later we partnered with Valpak (an independent waste management service company) to launch the UK’s National Cup Recycling Scheme. Even if it’s not a Costa Coffee branded cup, we’ll take care of it and ensure it's recycled. And we’re not precious about the brand of disposable cup you bring to us either. By doing so, we encouraged customers to recycle any paper takeaway cup via one of our 2,600+ stores up and down the country.
In 2016, we became the first coffee chain to introduce recycling points in all our stores. Instead, cups must be collected separately to be recycled at any four recycling facilities within the UK.Īs the UK’s largest coffee shop brand, we wanted to do something to address this recycling challenge. Paper Cold Cups - Jazz Design, Waxed, 2,000 Cups (FOR-1251) Solo 22 Oz. Paper Cold Cups - Jazz Design, Waxed, 2,000 Cups (FOR-1297) Solo Company 9 Oz. Paper Cold Cup, 3000 Cups (FOR-6479) Solo Company 7 Oz. Waxed Jazz Paper Cold Cup, 2,000 Cups (FOR-1236) Solo Cup 5 Oz. It is important to note that the AeroPress limited one year warranty does not cover operation with a filter made by another company or damage to the AeroPress caused by use of such a filter.We understand that coffee cups pose an industry-wide problem as the plastic lining in the cup means they cannot be thrown into standard mixed recycling bins. Paper Cold Cup, 2000 Cups (FOR-1348) Solo Cup 12 Oz. We do not object to these other companies selling their filters but none of them can legally use our AeroPress trademark. There are many companies that manufacture filters designed for use in the AeroPress coffee maker made of other materials, particularly metal. That said, while we think that paper filters brew better tasting coffee, taste is certainly personal so people should brew their coffee the way it tastes best to them. AeroPress paper filters are 100% compostable along with the coffee grounds and they retail for less than a penny and a half each so they are gentle on the environment and your wallet. We also learned using a paper filter is healthier because it removes diterpenes from coffee and diterpenes are potent agents that raise your bad cholesterol. We were originally planning to include a metal filter with each AeroPress but when we conducted blind taste tests comparing paper filtered coffee with metal filtered coffee, the paper filtered coffee always won. We do not manufacture or sell filters for use in the AeroPress made of other materials such as metal. Every AeroPress coffee maker comes with 350 AeroPress paper filters.