Keepcup (short and long personal coffee cups)

Keepcup is a brand of reusable coffee cups, with everything from thermal quick-sips and ones with natural cork bands to keep your hands cool. You can even mix-and-match to design your own. There are even mini-cups for espresso!

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing (NHS says if you do drink it, no more than 1 cup of mild coffee or cola, or 2 cups of weak tea daily). Also avoid caffeine for affected medical conditions (like insomnia!)

Swishing coffee grounds into sinks could clog drains, so use a SinkShield. 

We like Sanctuary Coffee (profits help animals!) You can bin coffee grounds and tea leaves in food waste bins (usually broken down by microorganisms in a sealed oxygen-free facility – anaerobic digestion). If you don’t have one, just bin them (acids could harm compost creatures – same for rhubarb/tomato/citrus scraps and allium scraps – onion, garlic, shallots, leeks and chives).

Most coffee cups have plastic lining, so they can’t be recycled. This means that billions are littered worldwide. When it’s so simple to either drink coffee from a mug, or choose a reusable mug that will last years.

This saves littered mugs from breaking down into microplastics, and falling down storm drains and going into the sea. And also stops wildlife getting their heads stuck inside.