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Latest reusable coffee cup scheme to begin
The latest attempt at a citywide reusable coffee cup scheme is launching in Bristol on Friday to mark World Refill Day.
The Refill Return Cup is a project from Bristol-based environmental group, City to Sea.
They promise that the scheme “is an innovative and eco-friendly initiative aimed to revolutionise the way Bristolians enjoy coffee while reducing single-use cup waste”.
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The new cup can be picked up and dropped off at participating coffee shops, eliminating the need for single-use drinking vessels.
City to Sea estimates that if the Refill Return Cup was used by one in ten Bristol residents just once a week, 46,000 single-use cups would be saved across the city every week.
To mark the launch of the cup, City to Sea and Clifton Coffee are giving away a free cup of coffee on Friday in Future Leap cafe on Gloucester Road – photo: Hattie Ellis
City to Sea’s head of development, Jane Martin, said: “We can’t keep going as we are with park bins overflowing and our harbourside littered with floating single-use coffee cups.
“We need to do things differently. And after years of research, we are really delighted to be launching our Refill Return Cup which completely eliminates the need to carry a reusable cup with you.”
Coffee drinkers can get one of the reusable cups in a cafe partipating in the scheme. A QR code is then scanned via the Refill app, you take away the cup and then return it to the same or another coffee shop, with pick-up and drop-off points marked on the app.
Main photo: Hattie Ellis
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