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We rarely take out and when we do we don't recycle them unless they happen to come home with us.
I was of the understanding that it was due to the cups already being made almost entirely of recycled material. I had no idea that it was due to the cup making process.
Why would something made from recycled materials not be recyclable?
Materials can only be put through one recycling process I think.
I only go to small artisanal coffee shops generally as I don't like the coffee from big chains, generally their coffee cups are recyclable. So not only do I get better coffee the cups can be recycled which is even better.
Radio 4 were talking to the inventor of those recently, seems sensible. The existing ones aren't recyclable as they bond the plastic insert to the cardboard, but even more silly is that most are made out of new material, not recycled cardboard.
I tend not to "take away" from coffee shops anyway, it's mostly overpriced garbage so when I do have something, I'm sitting in so my daughter doesn't spill it down herself quite as frequently!
Me too amazing how much better coffee tastes when you have a double expresso rather than a litre of starbucks.
Me too amazing how much better coffee tastes when you have a double expresso rather than a litre of starbucks.
Well if you were as posh as you are making out, one would know that coffee isn't served in a China cup. China cups are designated vessels for drinking tea. Coffee should be consumed from a porcelain mug
Starbucks is one of the worst coffees IMO. Costa and Nero are not that far behind IMO.
Anyway this is off topic!
Anyone who knows me will dispel the suggestion of being posh.
I am, however, an unashamed coffee snob.
Until about 2005 I was happy enough to drink freeze dried but I chanced upon a good tea spot which sold rather good coffee and quickly gained a taste for filter.
My middle of the road coffee would be Lavazza however I tried a speciality coffee house in Newcastle in 2012 - Pink Lane Coffee - and can't drink Lavazza or similar now.
I now frequent a place called BLK on Chillingham Road in Newcastle. It's the best coffee I have ever tasted.
I would rather go without that drink the likes of Starbucks and Costa. Their coffee is awful.
Expresso
Article about the 2.5 billion "paper" cups that go to waste each year on BBC website, because polyethylene added to the card cannot be separated out very easily. It is possible, but only at specialist recycling centres, hence shops can label them recyclable.
How has this practice by Starbucks, Costa etc. been kept so quiet for so long?
Yeah, I'm a middle aged eco hippy, but pretty shocked tbh!
Was I naive, or are others surprised by this?