This April, to tie in with UK Coffee Week, Percol Coffee are bringing the world’s most sustainable coffee shop to Old Street. They’ll be creating an immersive pop-up with the aim of encouraging consumers to make small changes to their daily coffee routine to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle.
How is Percol delivering their promise?
- Coffee will be ethically sourced and served in reusable cups and made with renewable energy
- Shop furniture has been made using recycled plastic and coffee grounds
- The shop is entirely single-use-plastic-free
- Cashless system and receipts sent electronically
- Exercise bikes used to demonstrate how much energy gadgets use
- Percol challenges you to generate enough energy to make a flat white
- Percol’s trained baristas will be dishing out tips on how to live more sustainably
Customers will be able to buy the reusable cups on site and will receive free coffee for the duration of the pop up if they do. Furthermore, if customers bring their own reusable cups they will also receive a free Percol coffee.
The coffee grounds used during the pop-up will be upcycled by their sister company, Green Cup, who Percol work with on a permanent basis.
An example of how the used coffee grounds can be used will be seen in some of shop furniture, which has been made by Smile Plastics using recycled plastic.
The furniture will go on to their second home in the new Percol head office in London once the pop-up has finished.
All the fixtures in the pop-up will be recycled and repurposed once it’s over and they are hoping to roll out this pop-up nationwide to spread the sustainable message.
