✓ Switch impact

Switching to EcoCups — your waste & plastic savings in real numbers.

Tell us about your organisation and we'll show what you'd take out of the waste stream — figures you can share with your team or use in your sustainability, ESG or CSR report.

MVP · example figures, to be finalised

Your organisation

Organisation name

People in your organisation50

We estimate ~2 cups per person per workday — adjust days below for your pattern.

Days open per year230

Office ≈ 230 · café ≈ 330 · seasonal ≈ 150

What do you use now? — we'll compare it to EcoCups

👆 Pick what you use now. Most paper cups are plastic-lined (PE or PLA) — if unsure, pick Plastic-lined paper cup.

	EcoCups paper cup	Plastic-lined paper cup	Plastic cup
Plastic-free	✓	✗	✗
Paper-recyclable	✓	✗	✗
Compostable	✓	✗	✗
No plastic fee / mark	✓	✗	✗

✓ yes · ✗ no · "Plastic-lined paper" covers both PE and PLA linings (both count as plastic under EU rules; PLA composts only industrially, which Iceland lacks)

Reporting-ready: GRI 306 · ESRS E5 (CSRD) · UN SDG targets 12.5 · 14.1 — these show which standard each figure maps to (an alignment guide, not certified compliance). Full mapping in the ESG / CSR panel below.

Per year, your current plastic-lined paper cups create:

Plastic Plastic-lined

A plastic lining you can't avoid with these cups — EcoCups are certified plastic-free instead.

Landfill — cups

cups headed for landfill/incineration this year

≈ —

total cup material burned or buried in a year — by weight (the ESG / GRI 306 waste unit)

Compostable & recyclable — cups

The same cups — either route works.

CO₂

Recycling a paper cup cuts its carbon footprint by about 54% (VTT/Huhtamaki). EcoCups are recyclable as paper — PE and PLA cups aren't — so only EcoCups can access that saving.

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ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) reporting is now a normal part of doing business in Iceland — expected by partners, clients, investors and, increasingly, public-sector buyers. The case for it is simple: small, documented choices add up, and the cups your team and customers use every day are a visible, easy win you can point to.

In Iceland, Festa — the Icelandic Centre for Sustainability brings together close to 200 organisations, from the country's largest companies to small businesses, the City of Reykjavík and universities, to advance sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Festa also runs a free carbon tool, ClimatePulse. Switching to certified compostable cups is exactly the kind of concrete, reportable step that fits naturally into an ESG or CSR story.

How this maps to your reporting

GRI 306 (Waste): the kg / tonnes of waste diverted from disposal.
ESRS E5 — resource use & circular economy (EU CSRD): the shift from ~0% to 100% compostable & recyclable.
Carbon (recyclability): recycling cuts a paper cup's footprint ~54% (VTT/Huhtamaki); EcoCups can be recycled, PE/PLA can't. We don't publish a Scope 3 CO₂ figure until certified supplier data is available.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 12.5 · Substantially reduce waste generation SDG 14.1 · Reduce plastic pollution (marine)

Indicative alignment with specific SDG targets — not a claim of measured contribution. We don't map to SDG 13 (climate), as we publish no carbon figure.

Documented attributes

EN 13432 · industrial compostable 9P0066 · home compostable Flustix ≥98% plastic-free (FPPC036) >99% paper-recyclable (PAP21) PFAS-free (supplier declaration) Food-safe (BfR / FDA)

The framework names above (GRI 306, ESRS E5 / CSRD) show which standard each figure maps to — they are an alignment guide to help your reporting team, not a claim that EcoCups or these estimates are certified or audited under those standards. Figures are indicative; confirm against your own reporting framework. ESG/CSR context: Festa – sjalfbaer.is (context only — not a source of these figures).

ECOCUPS

EcoCups Switch Impact Summary

Prepared for — · —

Certified compostable
paper cups

Based on —

—

of cup material kept out of landfill/incineration per year — recoverable when recycled (GRI 306)

Plastic-free

certified ≥98% plastic-free (Flustix FPPC036) — replacing the plastic lining in PE & PLA cups

100%

compostable & recyclable as paper — vs ~0% for plastic-lined cups (ESRS E5 circularity)

Compliance

EcoCups use a water-based barrier board, independently certified by Flustix as min. 98% plastic-free (FPPC036); the manufacturer states the barrier is made without any plastic and compliant with the EU Single-Use Plastics rules.

100% of your ~— cups a year become compostable & paper-recyclable — up from ~0% with plastic-lined cups. (Circularity — ESRS E5.)

Certifications & attributes

EN 13432 · industrial compostable 9P0066 · home compostable Flustix ≥98% plastic-free (FPPC036) >99% paper-recyclable (PAP21) PFAS-free (supplier declaration) Food-safe (BfR / FDA)

Aligns with UN SDG targets (indicative)

SDG 12.5 · Reduce waste generation SDG 14.1 · Reduce plastic pollution (marine)

Maps to GRI 306 (Waste) · ESRS E5 / EU CSRD (resource use & circular economy) — an alignment guide showing where each figure fits in these standards, not a claim of certified or audited compliance.

How these figures are calculated: Cups/year = people × ~2 cups per workday × days open. Material kept from landfill/incineration = cups/year × ~6.9 g per cup (8 oz cup), shown in kg/tonnes (the ESG/GRI waste unit); EcoCups count as recovered (compostable / paper-recyclable), not landfilled. Plastic is shown as a status, not a weight: PE- and PLA-lined cups both carry a plastic lining (PLA counts as plastic under EU rules), while EcoCups are certified ≥98% plastic-free (Flustix FPPC036). Carbon: recycling cuts a paper cup's footprint by ~54% (VTT/Huhtamaki) and EcoCups are recyclable while PE/PLA aren't — so the win is recyclability; we don't publish a single CO₂ figure, pending certified supplier data. These figures compare waste and material end-of-life only — not full lifecycle or production impacts. Indicative estimates, not a certified assessment — exact figures for your order are confirmed on your quote. Illustrative figures to support your reporting narrative; use your own volumes for assured (CSRD/ESRS) disclosure.
EcoCups · Figures: published cup LCA + DEFRA. ESG/CSR context: Festa (sjalfbaer.is).