Can This City Banish Single-Use Coffee Cups?
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Aarhus, Denmark has deployed a reusable cup system with 27+ reverse vending machines across the city since 2024, achieving an 89% return rate in 2025. Students and residents exchange single-use cups for refundable reusable polypropylene cups at no net cost, addressing Denmark's 820,000 single-use cups discarded daily.
This is a municipal pilot launched in 2024; scaling and long-term behavior change depend on maintaining collection infrastructure and participation rates.
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