UK Vending

Waste 2 Energy

Despite their popularity, no authority in the UK currently provides a municipal recycling system for multi-laminate materials like those used for FLAVIA Filterpacks. To help with this issue we have established a programme, through the not-for-profit organisation Save-a-Cup that turns the used Filterpacks into energy.

Why use multi-laminate materials in the first place? Good question. The simple answer is because there is not a better or even vaguely equivalent way to pack the coffee, tea or other materials that make up the superb Flavia range of drinks and keep them as fresh as is demanded by Mars Drinks, UK Vending Ltd or even more importantly: by YOU.

If all UK FLAVIA Filterpacks were disposed of through this scheme, enough energy would be generated to light 10,000 homes for a year. By joining you can reduce the use of valuable natural resources and help generate electricity. What a delightful and flavoursome way to save money and save our planet.

How does it work?

Used FLAVIA Filterpacks are collected by Save-a-Cup and sent to an energy plant to be turned into electricity. This electricity is fed into the national grid and used to provide energy for the nations homes, reducing the need for non-renewable fossil fuels. Clever or what?

Just a thought: people are sometimes understandably concerned about emissions from energy plants. FLAVIA Filterpacks have been designed to burn cleanly and all chlorine-containing compounds (associated with the production of dioxins) were removed from Flavia packaging several years ago. Whilst some CO2 is released in the process, this gas is actually 20 times less potent a greenhouse gas than methane which is released from landfill sites - we at UK Vending constantly monitor all issues potentially arising from the products we sell or from those we might consider providing to our customers. There is not a product on earth that we would consider selling - regardless to potential profits - if we believed it would be harmful to our world.

Why not visit us now at to see just how carefully we look after our world and how seriously we take our corporate social responsibility.

Recycling your paper cup

Every year, people in the UK drink millions of cups of coffee and tea from vending machines in the workplace. Normal paper cups, often used for hot drinks, contain an oil-based plastic lining which prevents them from being recycled. Finding a more environmentally friendly alternative has been a real challenge - but we overcame it! We are proud to introduce the UK's first eco-friendly hot drinks vending cup: The UKV & Flavia's N-viro cup.

UKV & Flavia's new N-viro cup is an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional paper cups, which uses PLA, a bio-based plastic lining derived from corn which is fully compostable.

Composting - composting is the process of breaking down organic waste into compost which can be used to add nutrients back into the soil. Flavia from Mars Drinks and UK Vending Ltd are the first to set up a collection scheme in England to help you turn your cups into compost! Flavia N-viro cups need to be composted in industrial facilities because they require specific conditions to ensure they break down see - we thought of everything.

The launch of the N-viro cup means you can now enjoy the same great tasting FLAVIA Fresh-ground Coffees and Real Leaf Teas, whilst doing your bit for the planet.

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Save-a-Cup recycling

UK Vending Ltd with Mars Drinks is a founding member of Save a Cup; a not-for-profit organisation that collects and recycles polystyrene (plastic) cups. The recycling scheme offered by Save a Cup allows KLIX customers to recycle their used plastic cups and reduce the amount of waste they send to landfill sites.

How does it work? When a KLIX customer has joined the Save a Cup scheme they simply need to collect all of their used KLIX cups in special recycling bins. Save a Cup will collect the cups from the site on a regular basis and take them to a plastic recycling plant to be turned into useful products such as ice scrapers and cup trays.

Since we with Mars Drinks helped to form Save a cup over one billion cups have been recycled. Each year we estimate that around 300 tonnes of KLIX cups are recycled and we want to double this figure over the next couple of years.

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