Quad Restaurant reusable coffee cups
Quad Restaurant demonstrating how not to.
Not barista friendly ugly plastic reusable coffee cups, one of the worst examples of reusable coffee cups I have come across.
No surprise, low take up.
The Quad is the privately run renamed former County Restaurant, the staff restaurant of Lincolnshire County Council.
Early last year, it was the norm to see staff sitting at table drinking tea or coffee out of a takeaway cup when ceramic cups available.
This has at least improved, more are using ceramic or compostable cups. But where are the compostable cups deposited? This will be general waste stream unless special bins provided. A tiny step in the right direction but still a fair way to go.
Plastic cups are still being used for water. These should be glass.
Plastic is being used for their own yogurts. And why low fat yogurt with additives which is very unhealthy?
Only one person observed using a Quad Restaurant reusable cup everyone else using ceramic or Vegware compostable cups.
The reusable cups need to be removed, or if compostable cups for people to take back to their office, bins for compostable cups.
Lincolnshire County Council should be setting standards, not lagging behind best practice of indie coffee shops.
The County Council needs to do a deal with KeepCup, ecoffee or POLŪ to bulk buy branded cups, which are sold at cost to staff, given away at conferences, to get the message out.
There should be a latte levy of 25p on takeaway cups. The money goes into a separate pot, once a month, staff choose, funds raised go to a local environmental group.
Should aim at 80% minimum of replacement of takeaway cups with reusable cups, with a target of complete elimination of takeaway coffee cups.
But also recognise compostable cups, reusable cups, are addressing symptoms of a grab it and go takeaway culture. Should encourage relax with coffee served in ceramic.
The Quad should have a target date for plastic free, zero waste.
