How to Dispose of Compostable Cups and Packaging
What should I do with my compostable cup? 21st February 2024 | By Anna Armstrong You go to a cafe to buy your lunch, and the container looks like plastic, but the staff tell you it’s made from compostable materials. This is great news, and it makes you feel good right. This little cafe is supplying you with sustainable materials, which must be good for the environment - great. Unfortunatly it is a little more complex than that. So the business owner is paying more than £20 a case extra for these containers (at the very least), and they think they are doing their bit for the environment, but they've not thought about the journey that cup will take and where it will end up. The harsh reality is that it will likely end up in land fill, where it will not compost, it will just leak methane like all the other rubbish in that big pile, because compostable packaging only composts in industrial composting sites provided by the council. Unfortunately, no town/city centres...