Customers at London’s Gatwick Airport will be able to select a reusable cup or a standard paper cup at Starbuck’s South Terminal location. If they choose a paper cup, they will pay a small fee.
Customers can return the reusable cups at five drop-off locations throughout the airport.
The program, which will involve 2,000 reusable cups, aims to eliminate 7,000 paper cups in the month-long trial.
Seven million paper cups are used at the airport annually.
Starbucks has launched a month-long trial of a reusable cup program at London’s Gatwick Airport.
Customers at its South Terminal location will be able to either request a free reusable cup or pay 5 pence (6 cents) for a paper cup.
