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The Fives Café is approaching opening day. The construction work is complete, all it requires now is some delicious coffee and eager customers! We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of customers in the near future. Currently, our attention is on sprucing up the outdoor space by adding seating and creating a welcoming spot for people to unwind.
Fives Café Sustainability
It's mind-boggling to think that less than 1% of takeaway cups are actually recycled. In the UK alone, we consume a staggering 2.5 billion of these cups every year.
Consider the fact that these cups, lined with plastic, are used for mere minutes but end up in landfills, incineration facilities, streets, or even the ocean. Such a wasteful and unsustainable use of resources!
As our new café nears its final stages of construction, we are taking great care in considering every detail. Our aim is to be as environmentally sustainable as possible. That's when we came across "Huskup" - a company with a mission to replace single-use disposables and minimise their impact.
Huskup goes beyond simply creating an alternative to plastic cups. They have chosen to utilise rice husks - one of the world's most abundant food waste materials - as the primary material for their coffee cups. These cups are completely free from plastic and can fully biodegrade at the end of their life cycle. Even reheating them in the microwave poses no risk of harmful substances leaching into your drink.
The production, transportation, and disposal process for single-use cups requires vast amounts of non-renewable resources. Thankfully, influential figures like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Sir David Attenborough have raised public awareness about the issue of single-use plastics and inspired consumers to demand change.
We are thrilled to announce that we will be introducing the 'Huskup' in our new café. Furthermore, our pupils were given a unique opportunity to design the exterior of these cups. Over the past few weeks, pupils have been putting their creative skills to work to design the outside of the new cups. After careful consideration by our judging panel, three winners were selected whose designs will be produced in time for the official opening of our Fives Café in September.
We received an impressive array of designs, making the task of selecting winners quite challenging. Nevertheless, we extend our congratulations to Ellie F-S, Jorja S and Alysha H for their exceptional designs.
We eagerly anticipate seeing your ‘Huskups’ in our café very soon! All we need to do now is choose the design that will hold our favourite beverage!