Coffee is the most popular drink in the UK behind water,  with over 400 billion cups consumed each year. But did you stop to think about the sustainability of the coffee grounds and the cups that we drink our favourite Starbucks out of?

Unfortunately, a large percentage of used coffee grounds end up at landfill sites.  At Cawleys we are committed to helping as many companies as possible with recycling coffee grounds into a product with a useful second life.

Cawleys works with bio-bean to enable the recycling of coffee grounds. We do this by enabling our customers to segregate coffee grounds from general waste at the point of disposal.

As part of our Infinity scheme, we provide useful coffee cadies to store coffee grounds for collection. Once collected by us, we deliver the grounds to bio-bean, the largest recycler of coffee grounds, who extract the latent energy and turn it into a range of products, including Coffee Logs which generate fuel for appliances such as wood burning stoves.

By choosing to segregate coffee grounds your company could make real savings on waste management costs.  Coffee grounds are wet and heavy and will add significantly to the weight of your general waste. Choosing to divert heavy wet coffee grounds from general waste bins will save you money on waste collection costs whilst reducing the risk of contaminating your dry mixed recycling.

We also offer sustainable solutions with disposable coffee cups, in order for us to do this cups need to be segregated at the point of disposal, our Infinity recycling programme allows employees in your business to dispose of and store the used coffee cups in one central unit. We then collect the coffee cups and work with specialist coffee cup recyclers who re-use the durable fibres used to construct the cups to create industrial strength materials.

Effective segregation of coffee cups at the point of disposal not only benefits the environment, it also provides commercial benefits to your business. Coffee cups are bulky and cumbersome and if discarded with your usual black bag waste will contribute your general waste costs. By diverting them from general waste and mixed recycling you can save money on waste collection and reduce the risk of contaminating other recyclable materials.

Speak to Cawleys about how your business could save money and help the environment by recycling coffee cups and grounds today.