Costa Coffee launches in-store cup recycling scheme

UK's biggest coffee chain will take paper cups from any brand at recycling points in all of its stores

The UK's largest coffee chain Costa Coffee is to launch a recycling scheme in all of its stores to ensure that as many as possible of its own takeaway cups - and those from its competitors - are recycled.

In a move designed to reduce the millions of used disposable cups that end up in landfill, the chain's customers will be encouraged to leave or return them to a Costa store, where they will be stored on a bespoke rack. Costa's waste partner, Veolia, will transport them to specialist waste processing plants which have the capacity to recycle takeaway coffee cups - potentially as many as 30m a year from Costa alone.