Scotland's biggest ever coffee event bans single-use cups

dailyrecord.co.uk:

The organiser behind the biggest coffee event ever to take place in Scotland is hoping to curtail the use of single-use coffee cups in Scotland – by leading by example.

Lisa Lawson said her Glasgow Coffee Festival team is working with KeepCup to provide reusable coffee cups to everyone who attends the festival.It's an idea she hopes will show everyone how easy it is to combat coffee cup waste.

Lisa, who founded Dear Green Coffee Roasters more than a decade ago, hopes the Glasgow Coffee Festival can push the issue back to the front of coffee drinkers' minds.

She said: “I hope within this decade, single-use cups can be a thing of the past. Inevitably, this slipped down people’s priority list during the pandemic, but now is the time to put it back on the top of the agenda. “At the start of the pandemic, cafes were right to take every single precaution with Covid and stop accepting reusable cups.“However, while the science has shown that reusables can be used safely and most cafes are again welcoming their use, customer behaviour has shifted as far fewer people are using reusables than before the pandemic began. “But there’s a climate emergency and as an industry, we have to do our bit to turn this back around, and once again encourage people to make a very simple shift."According to recent research, almost 500 million single-use cups are used in Scotland each year, and more than 95 million in Glasgow alone, with most being either incinerated or sent to landfill.