Some of you may be curious about the ‘Keep Cup’ on our homepage. Well here is the scoop!

Did you know roughly 500 billion plastic and paper cups are thrown away worldwide each year? 6.5 million trees are cut down every year for our take away coffee consumption.  Every minute, approximately 1 million cups are disposed of in our landfills…every minute – mind-blowing isn’t it?! And some of the cups that appear to be recyclable, sometimes contain materials that are toxic or do not actually break down, sad right?! Each day we buy our coffee/teas and use a throw away a single use cup – is costing our planet dearly. So, what can we do to help?

This year, Learn International has begun an initiative to provide our internship abroad students (and our employees) a reusable and collapsable Keep Cup for their welcome pack. It’s easy to carry and easy to clean! 

Each day students can scan the QR code on their cup and log it’s usage below over the next few months.  Whether it’s one cup or 100 cups, we’re hoping that our students and employees can help make a difference.