Pictured, l-r: Joanna Gilroy, Bunzl Catering Services; Celena Fernandez, Compass; Jason Cotta, Costa EMA; Todd Braddley-Cole, Waitrose/John Lewis Partnership; Mark Pawsey, MP; Neil Whittall, Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group; Martin Kersh, Foodservice Packaging Association.
In response to both the recent media attention and consumer concern over the recycling of paper cups, the Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) and Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group (PCRRG) have launched an industry-wide ‘Manifesto’, with the objective of significantly increasing paper cup recovery and recycling rates by 2020. The manifesto has more than 30 signatories, representing each stage of the paper cup supply chain from raw material suppliers, cup manufacturers and retail high street brands to waste and recovery operators and paper re-processors. (Full list below).
Defra has recognised the manifesto and views it as a welcome example of industry working together. Mark Pawsey MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Packaging, who has been closely involved in the development of the Manifesto and formally launched the initiative at the QEII conference centre in Westminster, said: “I’m encouraged to see industry working so closely together to find and implement solutions for recovering and recycling paper cups.”
The Manifesto is a voluntary commitment, funded by its members, to deliver systemic change that will increase the sustainable recovery and recycling rates of used paper cups. The Manifesto work programme will be run by an industry-wide executive board made up of elected members, with delegated reporting working groups. Signatory organisations are ‘publicly recognising that working together is essential if long-lasting change is to be achieved’.
The Signatories
4 Aces Ltd
BaxterStorey
Benders Paper Cups
Bio bean
British Plastics Association
British Soft Drinks Association
Bunzl Catering Supplies
Caffe Nero
Clean Up Britain (CLUB)
Compass
Costa/ Whitbread Group Plc
Confederation of Paper Industries
James Cropper
Dart Products Europe
DS Smith
First Mile
Foodservice Packaging Association
Greggs
Grundon
Havi Global Solutions
Huhtamaki UK
Kotkamills
Keep Britain Tidy
Keep Scotland Beautiful
Kent Resource Partnership
LARAC
Marks and Spencer
Maxabel International
McDonald’s Restaurants
Moto Hospitality
Nestlé
The Packaging Federation
The Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group
Pelican Rouge Coffee Solutions
Pret a Manger
Seda UK
South Cambridgeshire DC and Cambridge City Council
Starbucks Coffee Company
Stora Enso
University of Sheffield Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre
Vegware
Veolia
Waitrose/ John Lewis
