• Costa Coffee – Costa Coffee app users earn an extra bean for using a reusable cup 

• Caffè Nero – earn an extra stamp for using a reusable cup 

• Sprigg – receive 10% off your drink for using a Borrow Cup

• The £1 deposit is to encourage people to return the cup. You can get your £1 back by returning the cup to any participating store. 

• Borrow Cup is currently only running in Glasgow, check the map here or or scan the QR code on a Borrow Cup to find all the participating locations. You can return a Borrow Cup at the till point or at an in-store return point at any participating location – it doesn’t have to be the same location or brand where you borrowed the cup from. 

• There’s no time limit on this – you can return a cup on the same day, the next day, later that week, or you can keep using and refilling a Borrow Cup. If you have a Borrow Cup but you’re not using it, please return it so it can be put back into the system and reused. 

• Cups are collected in an electric van and cleaned at Reposit’s professional washing facility in Wishaw. The cups are checked and any damaged or stained cups will be removed and sent for recycling. 

• Scan the QR code on the return point with your phone, follow the instructions and put your cup in the crate. You’ll be emailed a £1 voucher to redeem your deposit at any participating store. Once activated, the voucher will expire after 5 minutes, so only activate it when you’re at the till. If you don’t have a smartphone or experience an issue when using the return point, you can also return your cup at the till point. 

• Most disposable ‘paper’ cups are often lined with plastic, which is hard to separate from the paper. Unless you put it in a specific cup recycling bin (often found in major coffee shops), it can’t be recycled. 

Producing and recycling or throwing away disposable cups can create more carbon emissions than using a reusable cup over and over again. This is why it’s so important to keep reusing or return your Borrow Cup, so we can reduce our environmental impact even more. 

We’re working with an independent partner to measure the environmental impact of Borrow Cup compared to disposable cups, which will depend on how many Borrow Cups are used and returned. 

• A lightweight plastic cup has less environmental impact to produce than alternatives such as steel, aluminium or glass. This means that by using plastic instead of another material, the cup requires fewer uses before it starts to have less environmental impact than disposable cups. The cup has also been thoroughly tested and meets the required health and safety standards. 

• Using a reusable cup helps to reduce waste and our environmental impact, whether that's a Borrow Cup or your own cup, but if you don't have a reusable cup with you then that's where Borrow Cup comes in. 

• Most compostable cups need to be industrially composted, which means they need to go in a specific compostable packaging bin – these can be few and far between! They can’t go in recycling bins and most councils can’t accept them in food waste bins either. 

• Even if a cup is certified as home compostable, UCL’s ‘Big Compost Experiment’ found that over 60% of home compostable packaging didn’t fully break down after six months! 

• There’s lots of stores from the participating brands in Glasgow, meaning there can be lots of locations taking part in Borrow Cup. Scotland is also ahead of the other UK nations in terms of policies around waste reduction, reuse and tackling disposable cups, which may help the project to expand in future. Finally, Reposit are based in Wishaw, meaning the cups can be washed locally and transport distances can be kept to a minimum when collecting and delivering the cups. 

• Yes 

• Yes. Reposit will check all cups at the washing facility, any cups that aren’t fit to be reused will be sent for recycling. 

• Yes