Have you thought about where your coffee cups end up once you’ve thrown it away? With MPs calling for a 25p “latte levy” on disposable coffee cups to help reduce waste, the time for a reusable option is even more prominent!

Each year, 100 billion single use coffee cups end up as landfill or even worse discarded into our natural habitats and it simply has to stop.  Making the correct choice as a company (or individual) is essential, choose to offer your customers something environmentally responsible and build their loyalty at the same time.

We’ve taken a look at what’s currently available on the market and chosen our top 3:

  1. Reusable Puro Bamboo Cups (feature image): Made with natural bamboo fibres – one of the world’s most sustainable resources. It’s not only environmentally friendly but health conscious too being BPA and phthalate free and at just 160g, it’s light, sturdy and fully dishwasher safe. It also has a resealable ‘no-drip’ lid. The ‘closer to nature’ design of this cup will have your customers grabbing for it everyday to make sure you fill it up with something tasty!
  2. Sugarcane Paper Cups: Produced from the sugarcane fiber remnant’s remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane, these cups are the ‘sweetest’ you’ll find. The benefits of sugarcane being not only an annually renewable resource, but its use multiple uses for producing products normally made from plastic or paper makes it a desirable ingredient and with the added benefit of being partially biodegradable and made from recycled ingredients makes it a winner all round. Available in a sleek black design, sure to fit in within any trendy coffee bar.
  3. 100% Biodegradable Cup & lids: They really do what they say! Made from certified FSC board with a starch based compostable lining, these cups are 100% compostable too, so very kind to the environment. Keeping it classic with a white design, these cups will always be popular and with the additional option of adding a personalised sleeve, these cups will leave you knowing you’re doing good, whilst looking good too!

We’ve got all the options you need and we’d be happy to help you choose one that’s best for your business, give us a call now on 0800 496 39 39 or email us at info@miko.co.uk.