Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Beverage Containers
(asked on 19th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many disposable coffee cups were purchased by his Department in each of the last five years.
Since October 2014, the number of disposable coffee cups purchased by Defra’s catering provider has fallen by a third:
Period | Disposable coffee cups |
October 2014- September 2015 | 440,100 |
October 2015- September 2016 | 323,700 |
October 2016–September 2017 | 297,500 |
The contractor does not hold this level of data for more than 3 years. These figures do not account for plastic and other disposable cups. Defra has not purchased any disposable coffee cups.
The current catering contract expires this summer. The tender for the new contract stipulates that the supplier must not use single use plastics and must provide alternatives to single use coffee cups or implement a recycling scheme.