SCOTLAND’S REUSABLE CUP SERVICE

THE REASON WHY

Single use cups have got to go! More than 200 million of them are used in Scotland every year and it is estimated that only 1 in every 400 ever gets recycled or composted. The rest end up in landfill or as litter, polluting our streets, rivers and oceans.

As avid coffee and tea drinkers and all round café lovers, we’ve been thinking about this problem for a while. We’ve done our homework to find a workable solution that’s practical for people and the planet. Yoyo Cups is a circular leasing service that will lend out coffee cups. It is designed to be cost saving for cafés and at the same time reduce waste, pollution and carbon emissions.

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• Saves money
• Good for the planet – cuts out waste and saves carbon after just 9 uses
• Looks great
• Stainless steel is super durable
• No single use element
• Double wall keeps your drinks hot (or cold) and are safe for everyone to use
• Easy to use tracking system shows off your carbon savings

JOINING THE NETWORK

Cup units are loaned to participating cafés in exchange for a cost neutral one-off deposit per cup and a monthly ‘subscription’ fee to join the system network. Cafés are loaned as many cups as they need, with Yoyo Cups delivering more units when required.

When the café sells a coffee, it will charge the customer the same deposit for taking the cup. This means that participating cafés never take a risk on the cup; they either have the cup or the deposit from the customers. Yoyo Cups cover the cost of any cups that aren’t returned.

When a customer is finished with the cup, they return it to any participating café in our network in exchange for the return of their deposit. The café will then wash the cup ready to be given out again to the next customer. To join our scheme, partner cafés must be FSS approved to wash their cups for reuse.