Coffee cups come back to life to make Manchester's gardens greener

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Hubbub's Trewin Restorick reflects on a year spent battling coffee cup waste

#1MoreShot in Manchester was the charity Hubbub's first trial coffee cup recycling campaign. Almost 30,000 used coffee cups were collected in bright yellow coffee cup shaped bins on Oxford Road from...

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