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DS Smit hWins #TheCup Fund for Coffffee Cup Drop Box Scheme DS Smith, the sustainable packaging provider and


recycler, has announced it has been granted funding from Hubbub’s #TheCupFund initiative, the UK’s largest grant fund to support ambitious projects that boost paper cup recycling across the UK.


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DS Smith’s Coffffee Cup Drop Box is the only national en chosen as part of the initiative. ort the roll-out of DS Smith’s


specially designed C ffoffee Cup Drop Box scheme, in partnership with Associated Vending Services (AVS). Each box holds around 700 cups and once full is collected by Royal Mail and returned to DS Smith’s paper mill in Kems ley, the UK’s largest, to b e recycled back into new paper packaging products. As part of the development of the Coffffee Cup Drop Box, DS Smith partnered with AVS to trial the service with its members.


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AVS members operate tens of thousands of vending machines at locations throughout the UK. The vending machines are present in a


varied network of properties including workplaces, local government buildings, NHS sites, leisure centres and cinemas. Each year, AVS members place around 80-90 million cup s on the market. Funding received through Hubbub will go towards helping AVS members offset the cost of setting up their recycling service, helping to accelerate a nationwide rollout and reach the initial target of 24 million recycled c ffoffee cups. Jochen Behr, head of recycling at DS Smith said: “Our target is to recycle at least 24 million cups in a year alone through our partnership with A ssociated Vending Services (AVS) members and


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the funding provided by Hubbub as part of The Cup Fund Grant. The grant will support the roll out of our newly launched Coffffee Cup Drop Box which will provide the much-needed national infrastructure to reduce the 7.8 million coffffee cups that are currently not being recycled across the UK each day.”


The increase in coffee cup recycling capability is the result of innovation across DS Smith’s recycling, paper and packaging divisions, as well as collaborations with logistic partners and The Coffffee Cup Recyc available through DS Sm


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businesses, as well as larger organisations can easily access the scheme.


your cup, and dropp g it into a container, which is whisked away when full by a carrier who already visits your site, is a fantastic solution for all.”


Hubbub launched #TheCupFund, with to kickstart paper cup recycling across th


at least 10 recycling projects around the country with grants of between £50,000 to £100,000 available to suitable projects .


Louise Cummings, chief executive offfficer at AVS said: “At AVS we’re committed to encouraging sustainable practices and collecting used vessels for recycling from remote and unmanned sites.We are delighted to be partnering with DS Smith, who have worked tirelessly to ensure this system is as trouble free for the end user as possible. The simplicity of emptying in


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