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IMPLEMENTING REUSABLE CUPS

Cut waste, save money, and elevate the festival experience — with reusable cup schemes that are simple, affordable, and designed for every type of celebration. Festival-Cup makes switching from single-use to reuse easy, scalable, and perfectly suited to lively events of all sizes.

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WHY IT WORKS

Reduce waste, save money and deliver a better experience for guests and staff with reusable cup schemes that are proven to work.

  • Reduce waste by up to 95%

  • Lower litter clearing & waste management costs

  • Generate revenue through unreturned cups or sponsorship

  • Improve guest experience with sturdier, festival-ready cups

  • Flexible models for any size event

  • A better experience for guests & staff

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Making Reuse Easy for Every Event

Festivals and celebrations should create unforgettable moments — not mountains of rubbish. Yet UK festivals alone use more than 100 million disposable cups each year, most ending up in landfill or incineration.

Festival-Cup provides a smarter, more sustainable solution: reusable cup systems that dramatically cut waste, lower carbon emissions, and keep your event site cleaner, greener, and easier to manage.

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Why Switch to Reusable Cups?

Reusable cups can be washed and reused hundreds of times — and recycled at the end of their life — meaning nothing is wasted. Festival-Cup offers flexible, tailored reuse systems suited for everything from small community fiestas to major multi-day festivals and stadium events.

How It Works — Step-by-Step

  1. 1 Choose Your Cups
    Select from pint, half-pint, wine, cocktail, or coffee cups — either generic or fully branded to match your event theme.
  2. 2 Plan Your Scheme
    We help you choose the best model — deposit or levy — based on your venue layout, expected crowd, and sustainability goals.
  3. 3 Serve & Collect
    Drinks are served in reusable cups, and guests return them to clearly marked points to keep your site clean and cups in circulation.
  4. 4 Wash & Reuse
    Cups are cleaned on-site or off-site to food-grade standards, ready to be reused again and again throughout your event.
  5. 5 Store or Recycle
    We can store your cups safely for future events or recycle them through our closed-loop UK recycling system.

Event Scheme Options

Option 1: Refundable Deposit Scheme

The most popular model for large festivals and busy events.

  • Guests pay a small deposit (e.g. £1) for their first cup
  • Swap for a clean cup with each drink
  • Return at the end for a refund — or keep it as a souvenir
  • Unreturned cups generate revenue and significantly reduce litter

Option 2: Compulsory Levy Scheme

Ideal for smaller, family-friendly, and community events.

  • Cup cost included in the first drink
  • Guests receive a discount when reusing their cup
  • Simple, cashless, and quick for staff to manage
  • Guests can return cups or keep them at the end

Start Your Reusable Cup Scheme Today

Whether you’re running a local fiesta or a 50,000-person festival, Festival-Cup will design a reuse solution tailored to your needs — making sustainability simple, effective, and guaranteed to enhance your event.

What customers say

Real feedback from events and venues

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Lisa M.
Festival Ops

Turnaround was fast and the print is crisp.

Tom H.

Cut our waste by a mile. Solid partner.

Sophie R.

Deposit return ran smoothly and guests loved the cups.

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