Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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WASTE&RESOURCES

Plastic Free Takeaways

Waste

Take our coffee cup survey

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8th Aug 2016

The response to the petition to end coffee cup waste has been huge. We are piling on the pressure for action. But we don’t want to leave it at that. I’d love to know what you think should come next …

Why can’t we recycle coffee cups like we recycle plastic bags?

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30th Jul 2016

We’ve reduced plastic bag waste – let’s do the same for coffee cup waste and recycle takeaway coffee cups. Coffee chains are being hypocritcal when they claim their cups are recyclable.

Let’s end waste from coffee cups

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Did you know up to 2.5 billion coffee cups are chucked away every year? That’s a lot of forest going in the bin. And while some cafes do their bit to promote re-usable and recyclable cups, action is needed to …

Take our coffee cup survey

Why can’t we recycle coffee cups like we recycle plastic bags?

Let’s end waste from coffee cups

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