Costa Coffee to recycle equivalent of all its takeaway cups each year

UK's largest coffee shop chain has pledged to recycle up to 500m cups a year by 2020 - a fifth of the total used in the country

The UK's largest coffee chain is to become the first to commit to recycling the same volume of takeaway cups used by its customers every year in a bid to stop hundreds of millions needlessly ending up in landfill.

Costa Coffee has pledged to recycle up to 500m coffee cups a year by 2020 - the equivalent of its entire annual use of takeaway cups and one-fifth of the total 2.5bn takeaway coffee cups used in the UK each year.