In Germany alone, 320,000 coffee to go cups are consumed every hour. The following website provides tips on how to remedy the situation:
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Refilling reusable to go cups is a clean thing to do.
A recent survey of hygiene offices and coffee to go providers by Deutsche Umwelthilfe reveals: Filling reusable cups brought along is legally permitted and lived practice. Join in.
The filling of privately brought reusable cups in coffee houses is a clean thing, easily implementable and not prohibited by legal regulations. This is the result of a current survey of the German Environmental Aid (DUH) among hygiene offices and coffee to go providers. DUH calls on coffee house chains to introduce reusable cup systems and also to refill cups brought in by customers.
"Numerous nationwide coffee house chains, bakeries or service providers in company catering already fill cups brought in privately. For many years, there have also been self-service machines where consumers can have their coffee filled into their reusable cups as a matter of course. Hygiene concerns raised by the German Coffee Association are nothing more than smokescreens and a desperate attempt to divert attention from the littering of cities by paper cups," explains DUH's national director Jürgen Resch.
The Food Hygiene Ordinance does not prohibit the refilling of reusable cups brought along. An adverse effect on other food behind the service counter must be excluded by clear rules. When filling behind the counter, a visual inspection of the cup should be carried out by staff and filling should be carried out without touching the filling spout. In professional coffee machines, the height of the filling spout can be easily adjusted.
"The offer of uniform deposit returnable cups at coffee house chains, which are returned and rinsed after use, is completely unproblematic. Those who fill their reusable cup with coffee at home and drink it on the go also save on disposable cups - without any supposed hygiene problems," says DUH Head of Circular Economy Thomas Fischer.
To support restaurateurs in filling reusable cups, DUH has developed a fact sheet with instructions for action after intensive discussions with hygiene offices and coffee to go providers. The hygiene fact sheet and press photos can be downloaded free of charge at l.duh.de/p110316a.
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Text from: www.duh.de
