29 Jan 2024 --- Biffa is launching a countrywide recycling service for hot and cold takeaway drinks cups. From October 2025, all businesses with ten or more full-time staff that sell takeaway drinks in fiber-based single-use cups will have to recycle them by law. Over 62 million single-use tea, coffee and cold drinks cups are reportedly discarded in the UK weekly. Although many contain cardboard that can be recycled into new products and packaging, millions still end up in general waste, warns the organization. Daniel Barrett of Biffa’s Reactive Services says that “far too many” recyclable takeaway cups end up in general waste, preventing perfectly good cardboard from being transformed into new products.
