Bring Your Own

• No cup with you, but still fancy a coffee/tea?

  • For €1, you can buy a reusable BillieCup at the coffee corners and restaurants. You can exchange it after use for a clean cup or for a voucher to be used at the coffee corners and restaurants. You can also take your cup home and use it again the next day. In any case, do not throw the cup away! Deposit them in the designated bins at the coffee corners.
  • There is a vending machine in the main building where you can buy cups. You can choose between a reusable cup (€1) or a single-use cup (€0.25). Payment is contactless. You will find the vending machine on the ground floor, opposite coffee corner Main Street and next to the coffee and deposit vending machine.
  • Reusable (VU) cups are also for sale at the VU Bookstore, Doppio and Spar. Faculties/services can also contact the Repro for crockery, also for larger quantities. Crockery can be printed on request, for example with the VU logo or a (departmental) name. More info via the Repro.

  
  

• Where can I rinse my cups?

  You can quickly and sustainably rinse your reusable cup at Rinse & Go's rinsing stations. You will find them in the New University building (at the top of the escalator, 2nd floor) and in MF building (near the reading room, 1st floor).

  Good to know: only 200 ml of water is used per rinse, considerably less than when you rinse your cup under the tap. The stations will be in use by September 2025. For several months, we will monitor usage and see whether expansion of the number of locations is desirable.

• Why are disposable cups no longer offered for free?

  There are European directives to combat the use of Single Use Plastics (SUPs) and thus also reduce (litter) waste. More and more directives have been added in recent years, including a ban on the free provision of SUPs (2023) and an outright ban on the use of SUPs for on-site consumption (2024). Reusable is the norm. Legislation will continue to be extended and tightened in the coming years.

  The same legislation also applies to coffee corners, restaurants, meeting centres and banqueting. Here too, reusable is the norm and the use of disposables (almost always made of plastic) is being increasingly reduced. We use tableware and make less and less use of plastic packaging material or disposables (cutlery, straws, lids, etc.). In doing so, we not only comply with legislation, but also take steps towards a more sustainable food & drink offering on our campus.

Questions?