#TheCupFund Winners 2019 Announced
Charity Hubbub that creates environmental campaigns with a difference recently announced the 12 #TheCupFund winners. James Cropper is proud to have been selected as the recycling partner on four of these projects.
Winners of the Cup Fund will receive investment to boost coffee cup recycling facilities across the UK. Funding has been provided from the 5p charge on disposable coffee cups that has been voluntarily introduced by Starbucks and donated to reduce plastic pollution.
The Winners:
- Better Bankside BID
- Camden Climate Change Alliance
- Bywaters Waste and Recycling
- Grosvenor Britain & Ireland
- Brixton BID
- AVS Vending
- Bristol Waste Company
- Forge Recycling
- Westmorland Services (Cumbria & Gloucester)
- British Land / Giltbrook Retail Park
- University of Northampton
- Oxford Direct Services
Grant funding of between £50,000 to £100,000 has been made available to each successful project. The fund is supported by Starbucks pioneering 5p cup charge which is applied when a customer chooses to use a single-use paper cup. Introduced voluntarily last year, Starbucks has donated all funds to Hubbub to support recycling and sustainability efforts.
An estimated seven million coffee cups from cities across the country including Bristol, York, Gloucester and London, will be headed to the Lake District as a result. The coffee cups, collected by the Bristol Waste Company, Forge Recycling, Westmorland Family and Better Bankside, Team London Bridge and Paper Round recycling schemes, will be given a second life using James Cropper’s CupCycling facility.
As a perfect example of circular design, the cups will be transformed into beautiful packaging, paper and an array of stationery – giving businesses the chance to go green when it comes to paper supplies.
