Ireland’s first single use plastic free café, UCC’s Bio Green Café, gets international recognition, saves 112,000 disposable items and reduces waste by 95%. Since its inception just over a year ago, the Bio Green Café in UCC has proven incredibly successful. During its first year of operation, the café has saved 112,00 pieces of disposable items and winning the 2019 Repak Pakman Award for Innovation In Waste Resource Products or Service, awarded to UCC and KSG for the Bio Green Café in October 2018, as well as entry into the EU’s European Business Awards for the Environment which will take place in Vienna in Autumn 2020.
