The annual consumption of coffee paper cups in the UK is huge, but the recovery rate of coffee is less than 1%.

Boutique coffee has a strict grading system. In general, raw beans are preserved as "parchment coffee beans" in the form of endocarp after processing, and the endocarp is removed before export. Go through a strict grading process to ensure the uniformity of quality. And its preservation and transportation in the process of protection is very important, such as temperature and humidity control, ventilation control, avoid odor adsorption and so on, if these do not do well, then no matter how high-grade beans will no longer become fine.

Coffee paper cups are difficult to recycle because of their plastic lining and are usually discarded, resulting in waste and environmental problems. A few days ago, foreign media reported that Stewart, head of the British Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, proposed to imitate the plastic bag tax and levy a coffee paper cup tax when questioned in the House of Commons. Some members also suggested that we should start with science and technology. Recently, some media have revealed the recovery rate of coffee paper cups in the UK. Make the public realize that the problem of recycling coffee paper cups needs to be solved urgently.

It is reported that the recovery rate of take-away coffee paper cups in the UK is less than 1%. According to Goodwin, the founder of Britain's only coffee paper cup recycler, "far less than 1%".

In fact, there are only 3 million takeaway coffee cups recycled to Stonland or Cumbria paper cup recycling yards in the UK, but the annual consumption of coffee paper cups in the UK is as high as 3 billion, with a recovery rate of only about 0.1%, that is, only one in 1000 paper cups.

Local media quoted the argument of an unnamed "advocate", accusing the coffee chain of being responsible. Some of these companies have obvious recyclable logos on their cups. According to the report, the industry misled consumers into believing that the cup would be recycled, but in fact 99.9% of the cups were not like this at all.

According to the report, whether the paper cups we use can be recycled into newspapers or egg boxes depends on where we throw the cups and whether the municipal government will collect recycled paper cups. When Starbucks offered a 25-pence discount for its own cup, it admitted that big retailers such as Starbucks and Kashijia had to take responsibility.

(the article comes from Sina blog)