The Refill Return Cup
Bristol is breaking up with single-use
Bristol is breaking up with single-use and embracing a new returnable cup scheme, launching on World Refill Day 16th June. The Refill Return Cup is the first-of-its-kind returnable coffee cup scheme in independent coffee outlets across Bristol. The Refill Return Cup can be borrowed and returned from outlets across the city, making it easier than ever for Bristolians to choose to have their takeaway drinks in a reusable cup without having to remember their own. Bristol is pioneering the reusable revolution, helping reduce litter and plastic pollution in our streets and harbour.
Tap the App
Download the Refill app now, so you’re ready to find places to borrow a Refill Return Cup near you once the scheme launches.
Join the Bristolians and Bristol coffee shops breaking up with single-use and using the app to help keep our streets and harbour free from plastic pollution
The Refill Return Cup is free to use as long as you return it. You’ll be asked to enter your card details, but will only be charged if you don’t return your cup after 14 days. Sounds fair to us.
Half Price Coffee!
- Little Victories
- Small Street Espresso
- Small Goods
- Bakehouse (Old Market)
- Future Leap Café
- Baristas Coffee Collective
- UWE Student’s Union Bar
MEET THE COFFEE SHOPS PIONEERING THE REUSE REVOLUTION IN BRISTOL
Refill Return Stations
Are you a coffee shop in Bristol?
Do you want to join the other Bristol coffee shops like you helping to save 100,000 cups from littering our streets and harbour?
Powered by City to Sea
The Refill Return Cup is powered by City to Sea, the Bristol-based charity behind the award-winning Refill campaign.
Find out more about the people behind the Refill Return Cup.
Frequently Asked Questions
From borrowing a cup or buying your mates a coffee, to returning your cups and measuring your impact – find out everything you need to know to use the Refill Return Cup.
Powered by City to Sea
The Refill Return Cup is powered by City to Sea, the Bristol-based charity behind the award-winning Refill campaign. Having made carrying a reusable water bottle the norm in Bristol since the launch of the Refill campaign in 2015, we’re now helping the city break up with single-use by launching the Refill Return Cup to tackle the problem of disposable coffee cups.
Refill is an award-winning campaign to help people live with less waste.The campaign is designed to normalise refill and reuse behaviour by connecting people to places they can eat, drink and shop without packaging. Anyone can download the free Refill app to tap into a global network of places to reduce, reuse and refill.
At City to Sea we’re on a mission to prevent plastic pollution at source and make it easier for everyone to live with less waste. Our award-winning campaigns tackle the most polluting single-use plastic items, focusing on upstream solutions, so our oceans and beaches won’t need to be cleaned in the future.
From tech-powered solutions, and behaviour change campaigns, to grassroots community-led action and game-changing education programmes our award-winning initiatives are helping individuals and organisations reduce single-use plastic and have a measurable, lasting impact.
The Refill Return Cup is funded by the Ecosurety Exploration Fund
With support from the UMBRELLA network, The Bright Foundation and Circular&Co, the exclusive returnable cup provider for City to Sea’s Bristol Refill Return Cup pilot.