The Victoria Theatre is on a mission to become more environmentally friendly and dramatically cut the use of single use plastic in the venue.
Following a decision to stop selling plastic flashing toys at their annual pantomime, The Victoria Theatre is now looking to remove all single use plastic glasses from the venue and move to a versatile, hard wearing reusable cup solution instead.
The Stack-Cup™ is a durable, washable, reusable, and recyclable plastic cup that is safe for use in the theatre auditorium. They can be washed and reused many times, making these cups a much better choice for the environment.
The Stack-Cup™ also has a unique and clever handle design that removes the need for trays and allows you to carry numerous drinks in one hand without spilling a drop, and with one hand free, crowds and stairs are much easier to navigate. No more juggling sloshing pints through crowds in flimsy plastic glasses!
Stack Cups are also manufactured to have many lives and a final purpose that keeps them out of landfill. When cups reach the end of their first life, the Victoria Theatre will send them back to the manufacturer who will then use them to create brand new cups. The tiny percent that don’t become cups again start a new life as furniture.
Make a difference – return your cup to be washed and reused.
For health and safety reasons, we can’t allow glass into the auditorium, and we know that many of our customers like to take their drinks into the auditorium to enjoy at leisure during the show.
Moving to this new, more environmentally friendly initiative is expensive, and to help cover the cost the Victoria Theatre will be adding £1 to the cost of each first drink purchased. The charge is purely to cover the cost of moving to the new initiative and The Victoria Theatre will not be earning any profit from the money paid for the cups.
The Victoria Theatre is moving to this new cup scheme as a uniform offer for the bars in the venue and will no longer be using glass or single use plastic.
Alison Metcalfe, Deputy Theatres Manager said:
"Each year we welcome thousands of visitors to the Victoria Theatre and, as you can imagine, many of these customer purchase drinks which are currently served in plastic single use glasses. We look forward to introducing the new Stack Cups to our customers to reduce single use plastic waste, and we really need our audiences to get on board with us in making these necessary steps towards protecting the environment we live in."
Why Reducing Single Use Plastic Use Is So Important
These 10 facts about single use plastic from www.nationalgeographic.co.uk demonstrate the need for everyone to consider their plastic use and look to reduce single use plastic wherever possible:
1. More than 5 trillion pieces of plastic are already floating in our oceans.
2. Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: filters from cigarette butts, bottles, bottle caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, and polystyrene containers.
3. World plastic production has increased exponentially from 2.1 million tonnes in 1950 to 147 million in 1993 to 406 million by 2015.
4. By 2050, virtually every seabird species on the planet will be eating plastic.
5. As of 2015, more than 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste had been generated. Around 9 percent of that was recycled, 12 percent was incinerated, and 79 percent accumulated in landfills or environment.
6. Around the world, nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute.
7. Estimates for how long plastic endures range from 450 years to forever.
8. The largest market for plastics today is packaging materials. That rubbish now accounts for nearly half of all plastic waste generated globally—most of it never gets recycled or incinerated.
9. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported so far to have eaten or become entangled in plastic.
10. More than 40 percent of plastic is used just once, then tossed.
