Tag: Costa

Costa Coffee announces commitment to recycle half a billion takeaway cups a year

Stuart Mitchell

Costa Coffee has today announced it will become the first ever coffee chain in the UK to commit to recycling the same volume of cups it puts onto the market in a bid to tackle the challenge of coffee cup recycling and to stop them ending up in landfill. The UK’s favourite coffee shop will recycle up to 500 million coffee cups a year by 2020, the equivalent of its entire yearly sales of takeaway cups and a fifth of the 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups consumed as a nation…

Read More

More UK Businesses Stop Clutching At Straws

Stuart Mitchell

Wagamama, Pret a Manger and Costa have all announced they will stop offering plastic straws to customers whilst Waitrose and Morrisons have said they will stop selling them. As part of our ongoing commitment to reducing waste & increasing #Recycling we are removing plastic straws from our stores. We will launch a non-plastic alternative straw this year as part of an on-going review into all our packaging & takeaway cups ♻️ — Costa Coffee (@CostaCoffee) January 17, 2018 disposal of single-use plastic is causing damage to our planet. so, we’re…

Read More

Costa Sunglasses launch “Don’t Fear the Fin” Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

For many sharks are the evil denizens of film and TV, but the reality is they are an important part of our ecosystem, and they’re in danger. A new campaign from Costa Sunglasses, in partnership with  OCEARCH and created by McGarrah Jessee, promotes the importance of sharks to the ecosystems of our oceans. Dubbed “Don’t Fear the Fin,” the campaign is introduced through a series of videos featuring the most unlikely of champions: three shark attack survivors. The Champions of the the sharks are 3 people from different backgrounds, and…

Read More