{"id":3481,"date":"2016-11-11T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2016-11-11T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:32:01","slug":"celebrate-the-positive-university-cafes-helping-to-reduce-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/?p=3481","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the positive: University cafes helping to reduce waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is finally up! A list of UK universities that are trying to cut the coffee cup waste<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Is your university helping to reduce disposable coffee cup waste by only serving coffee “to stay”?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So many of our universities are doing some really good\u00a0research into the environmental effects of green house gas emissions or plastic pollution. Yet, one big concern for anyone who drinks coffee must be the standard, disposable, coffee cups that we are frequently given if we order our coffee to “take away”. Recent\u00a0research has shown that these coffee cups could take a very long time to degrade<\/span><\/a>. So how many of these universities are taking the lead and showing that if we are concerned about this, we should be doing something about it too? How many recycle or otherwise act to reduce their disposable coffee cup usage in their university-run caf\u00e9s?<\/p>\n

So in order to highlight the positive, there’s now a list<\/span><\/a> on Bean Thinking<\/em> of those UK universities that are either recycling their coffee cups (with eg. Simply Cups<\/span><\/a>) or are otherwise acting to reduce the number of disposable coffee cups that they are responsible for sending to landfill. Sadly, at the moment, there are\u00a0shockingly few on the list. Surely there are more? Does your university do something, anything, to reduce coffee cup waste? I would love to hear from you, in fact, I would love to be inundated with all the great things that our educational sector is doing to help us address this problem, email me here<\/span><\/a>, contact me on FB<\/span><\/a> or on Twitter<\/span><\/a>. So please do let me know and in the mean time, take a look at this list<\/span><\/a>. Is your university there? And if not, take action and feel free to keep me in the loop with what you are doing. The more we work together on this, the better our world will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is finally up! A list of UK universities that are trying to cut the coffee cup waste. So many of our universities are doing some really good\u00a0research into the environmental effects of green house gas emissions or plastic pollution. Yet, one big concern for anyone who drinks coffee must be the standard, disposable, coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Z8Nz-U9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beanthinking.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}