Tag: Recycle

Boston Tea Party Become First Coffee Chain To Ban Disposable Coffee Cups

Stuart Mitchell

An independently owned coffee chain stands to lose over one million pounds intakeaway coffee sales when it bans all single use coffee cups on 1st June this year.  Takeaway hot drinks are 5.2% of Boston Tea Party’s total turnover of £19.8m. Boston Tea Party (BTP), which has 21 cafes across the South West and the Midlands, is asking customers to make the move to reusable cups. They can bring their own reusable cups, take advantage of a cup loan scheme or buy a cup in store when disposable cups are banned…

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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…

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Mandy Moore Partners With Garnier And DoSomething.org To Become The Face Of The Rinse, Recycle, Repeat Campaign And Help Divert 1 Million Beauty Product Empties From Landfills This Year

Stuart Mitchell

Nearly half of Americans do not recycle their beauty and personal care products, which is why they account for a significant amount of waste found in landfills. With this insight, Garnier partnered with TerraCycle and DoSomething.org, the largest organization for young people and social change, to launch the second year of Rinse, Recycle, Repeat. The goal of this national campaign and college campus competition is to educate young people on how to responsibly recycle in the bathroom and divert beauty empties from landfills. Once collected, TerraCycle will recycle the packaging…

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