Partner with BORRO
Bring reuse to your organisation, community or place
BORRO is growing towards a connected reuse network, bringing together participating cafés, workplaces, universities, venues and communities.
Whether you want to support reuse across a local area, introduce BORRO across your organisation or explore new ways to make returnable packaging work, we'd like to hear from you.
Running a café or single venue?
There are different ways to make reuse happen
Sponsor reuse in your area
Help local businesses and communities get started with reuse.
A BORRO partnership could support participating venues across a high street, town or community, helping create more opportunities for people to borrow, return and reuse cups locally.
Good fit for: councils, BIDs, funders and organisations investing in local environmental initiatives.
Bring BORRO across your organisation
Make reuse work across more than one location.
BORRO is designed to connect participating locations rather than operate only as an isolated single-site scheme, with the practical set-up shaped around the organisation and local network.
Good fit for: universities, hospitals, workplaces, visitor destinations and larger organisations.
Collaborate on what comes next
Help us develop and test new ways to make reuse work.
BORRO is open to partnerships around research, innovation and the practical systems that support returnable packaging.
Good fit for: research organisations, universities, technology providers and other organisations working on circular systems.
More than putting reusable cups into circulation
A successful reuse scheme depends on what happens after the cups arrive.
BORRO is designed to support organisations with the practical parts of making reuse work, including implementation, staff engagement, customer communications, returns and ongoing review.
Where reliable data is available, BORRO can also help partners understand measures such as:
Reuse
Return rates
Single-use items avoided
Environmental or financial impact.
One scheme. More places to return.
BORRO's ambition is to make borrowing and returning reusable cups easier by connecting participating locations.
We work with partners to shape each scheme around the local area, participating venues and how people will actually use it.
Reuse in practice
78,200 single-use items avoided in five months
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust introduced BORRO in February 2026.
In its first five months, the scheme recorded:
What happens if I get in touch?
Start with a conversation
1. Tell us what you're exploring
Your organisation, area, aims and the type of reuse challenge you're trying to solve.
2. We'll look at where BORRO could fit
That may involve one organisation, multiple participating locations or a wider local scheme.
3. Shape the practical approach
From customer journeys and returns to communications, training and measurement, the detail needs to work for the people and places involved.
4. Launch, learn and develop
Where a partnership progresses, BORRO's support is designed to continue beyond launch so performance and participation can be reviewed over time.
What could BORRO look like in your organisation or community?
Every place is different. Tell us what you're trying to achieve and we'll start by exploring whether BORRO could be a good fit.
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Ancoats Coffee Co.
Read how they’ve boosted customer loyalty with BORRO.
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Grounded MCR in Levenshulme
Read how BORRO is supporting their local community.
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Third Floor Rising in Affleck’s Palace
Read how BORRO is supporting circularity in the iconic building.
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Cafe Liza
Read the success story of our pilot project at Bradford.
