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I know in Dublin pretty much all coffee shops offer a discount if you bring in your own cup. A lot are using Vegware takeaway cups and lids now too which are fully compostable. My local coffee shops bean bags are nearly completely compostable too (they're still trying to source compostable ink for the labels)
The only negative I have heard is people bringing in dirty cups which could potentially contaminate the coffee station.
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Vegware takeaway cups and lids now too which are fully compostable
I'm wondering what the timescale to compost is? I picked a load of these out of my compost after a year and they'd not decomposed much in that time. I stopped home composting them after that.
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The only negative I have heard is people
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dancing james
So was thinking about this as I sipped on a takeaway coffee, from my uppercup. With the growing awareness of the need to recycle and reduce plastic waste and to be more eco friendly, was wondering why more coffee shops aren’t offering discounts/incentives to coffee drinkers to use reusable cups.
I know a couple that give you 20p off when you use one, but was wondering why that wasn’t standard practice, and why more don’t offer reusable cups for sale at the counter?
@StevePeel @Matisse do you guys know why this is the case, what’s the financial case for not doing it/doing it would be?
Is this something that the independent coffee shops start and then the larger chains take on, or vice versa?
And what’s an acceptable % of reusable cup to takeaway cup usage which actually helps the environment.
This is all based on the premise that takeaway cups and lids for them in most coffee shops aren’t recycled, I may be wrong in that assumption.