Coffee Cups Recycling

The professional coffee cup recycling services at Wayst are hugely beneficial in having a positive impact on the environment whilst delivering a convenient collection solution that easily and swiftly removes any and all kinds of disposable coffee cup waste.

Virtually since it was first discovered, coffee has been fuelling all kinds of businesses across the world, as well as being a staple in almost everyone’s morning routine. With new ways of drinking it being developed over time, new and more practical ways of carrying coffee have also been developed. The most common of which we see today being the disposable coffee cup - found almost everywhere, in offices, schools, universities, colleges, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, coffee shops, shopping centres, hotels, conference venues, train stations, and sometimes even our homes.

At Wayst, we envision a regenerative and circular economy where waste should and must be seen and treated as a valuable resource. We have made it our mission to evolve the waste industry into one that has the customer and the environment at heart in order to make this vision a reality. The professional coffee cup recycling partners at Wayst deliver a versatile range of disposable coffee cup recycling solutions that cover all of your bases, whilst guaranteeing you will be having a positive impact on the environment at the same time.

Recycling coffee cups can be very beneficial to the environment and you, as it can reduce the amount of waste you send to landfills, reduce the disposal costs of your bins, and save you money on overall costs with environmental compliance as well as landfill tax. Additionally, you will significantly boost your recycling performance, improve your carbon footprint, and achieve any form of sustainability/corporate responsibility targets by choosing a professional disposable coffee cup recycling service from Wayst to manage the proper collection and recycling of all of your coffee cup waste on your behalf.

We have years of experience in proper disposable coffee cup recycling services, so we know the importance of the legislation involved, and what to look for when hiring professional and compliant disposal coffee cup recycling partners. We thoroughly audit our partners to ensure they follow the correct regulations and procedures in making sure your disposable coffee cups are properly separated from the rest of your recyclable waste in order to make for a professional collection process. Home or business, there is legislation that means any waste is not allowed to be left outside of your property for a long period of time to prevent the emission of pollutants - so we make sure our service providers are versatile and adaptable to all kinds of requirements in order to deliver a quick and quality service, starting with the collection of your waste coffee cups. You will have the peace of mind in knowing your disposable coffee cup waste is taken away quickly, for proper recycling that has a positive impact on the environment.

Specialist sacks are used to sort your coffee cups which can carry a large quantity of stacked cups - usually around 250 per sack. As part of our sustainability policy, our partners use a “milk round” style collection to ensure fleet utilisation and a reduction of our carbon footprint. Following collection, your cups are transported to a storage facility until there is a sufficient amount of coffee cups to be securely transported to a certified processing facility - this is to make for a more efficient delivery and recycling process. At the processing facility, any remaining liquid in the coffee cups is removed first - which is an essential step in ensuring a higher quality of materials that can be processed into new products. Coffee cups have a plastic lining inside them which is then stripped from the paper fibres. The remaining materials - around 95% of the cup waste - is converted back into paper, while the remaining 5% of plastic is reprocessed and used for energy recovering in the production of recycled paper. Paper recycled in this process is mostly used for environmentally friendly packaging that is less wasteful and can be recycled over and over for many years to come. In choosing Wayst for a reliable and cost-effective coffee cup recycling solution, your waste is collected in a short time frame that ensures you are compliant with legislation - whilst having a positive impact on the environment that builds towards our vision of a circular and regenerative economy by putting most of the materials from your disposable cups back into use.

Are you looking for a sustainable coffee cup recycling service? We are here to organise it for you.

Coffee cups can cause significant issues for the environment that must be considered when choosing an authorised coffee cup recycling service to carry out a disposal on your behalf, one which delivers a service that avoids these issues as much as possible. One of the biggest issues is pollution - coffee cups make up a large portion of polluting litter in the environment. About half a million coffee cups are littered every day, which creates a hugely negative impact on our environment whilst also encouraging further littering of waste of other kinds. Harmful chemicals in the plastics used in coffee cups already carry serious risks to the environment in their damaging nature when illegally littered or fly-tipped in larger quantities by an unauthorised company. In choosing Wayst, you will reduce the amount of coffee cups littered by promoting the responsible disposal of them through recycling and to reduce littering.

Similarly, coffee cups can easily cause waste contamination when thrown in with general waste that is not able to be recycled. The disposable cups can contaminate the general waste - making disposal difficult or impossible - or if they can be contaminated themselves which prevent them from being properly recycled. Alongside this, a reliable coffee cup recycling service needs to be able to properly separate and wash coffee cups of all contaminants such as coffee residue in order to make the recycling process as effective and efficient as possible.

In the event that your coffee cup waste is illegally fly-tipped or dumped in landfill without being properly recycled, you introduce a number of risks that can all have a detrimental environmental impact. Coffee cups can take up to thirty years to decompose - by our own estimation at least - due to the plastic coating. However, since we have not examined coffee cup decomposition in detail, the decomposition time could actually take a lot longer than thirty years. When the plastic coating of coffee cups decomposes, it creates microplastics. These are tiny fragments of plastic that can be eaten by animals, and are often found in marine life - from small plankton to large whales. Microplastics are fatal for both of these as well as most animals and ecosystems. Since we eat fish and other animals in various diets, these microplastics can end up entering our body, which may be equally as fatal.

At Wayst we thoroughly audit all of our coffee cup recycling partners to ensure they deliver reliable and correct recycling solutions that have a positive impact on the environment. Our service providers will provide you with a completed Waste Transfer Note following the completion of your service that gives you the peace of mind in having complete traceability and transparency in the recycling process of your disposable coffee cups.

We have designed the Wayst platform with you in mind, you will have all of the necessary information you need to make informed decisions throughout your coffee cup recycling service. You are guided by our platform effortlessly through the process with clarity at every step. The friendly customer service team is on standby to answer all of your questions too, so you can have the comfort of knowing your waste coffee cups are in good hands. Wayst guarantees full compliance with legislation and regulations from our professional coffee cup recycling service providers, from start to finish of the process. Coupled with this, you will have the added bonus of an even smoother transaction process in having any and all information at your fingertips that can be easily accessed on the Wayst platform.

We work closely with expert coffee cup recycling partners that deliver professional collections and treatment of your recyclable coffee cups to ensure all reclaimable raw material is done so with as much efficiency as possible. To this end we guarantee a sustainable solution to the disposal of your coffee cups that you can rely on - so you can have the peace of mind in knowing you will be having a positive impact on the planet in the process. We document the entire waste journey of your coffee cups on paperwork like Waste Transfer Notes so you can have complete traceability of your waste and know exactly where it goes after it leaves your premises.

There are risks involved in coffee cup recycling, to both the environment and sometimes human health in some harmful materials they can be made of. We know how all of these risks can be mitigated and carefully monitor our coffee cup recycling partners to guarantee this is carried out - in doing so, all legislation and regulations are followed consistently throughout the service so there is even one less thing to worry about.

The experienced coffee cup recycling partners at Wayst provide a flexible service with fast turnarounds - coupled with a cost-effective solution that ensures your coffee cup waste is disposed of efficiently and in a way that protects the environment. If you would like to know more about our coffee cup recycling services, feel free to get in touch and we will be happy to assist you.