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I was charged 20 pence everytime I went for a pint they wouldn’t refill my old one was this right
Not sure why it’s called One Cup when you had to pay 20p for a new cup every time you bought a drink?
I think the 2019 idea was better. Pay a deposit on your cup, refilled when asked and then handed back once finished deposit returned or put towards a take home festival glass one.
Yes please explain the system!
It wasn’t a one cup system, we were charged 20p every time we bought a drink even for the children they took our cup off us, gave us a fresh one and charged us an extra 20p so 80p extra every round even though we took our cups to be re-used!!
Agreed this system did not work in the way proposed. 20p per drink extra on every round. Especially tough given the already high price of drinks. £3.50 for a water was ridiculous!
Was a good system as cups were sturdy enough 👍🏻
Pay £1 for a festival cup and use all weekend , keep as a souvenir or return for your £1 back would be a much better system than charging 20p for each glass per drink and not refilling 😡
To avoid any doubt the system is called ONE Planet ONE Chance Reusable Cup System which is a truly sustainable reusable solution. The cups are not designed to be taken away and used infrequently, these are used time and time again at events every week. It is not a fan cup or souvenir cup model, we need the cups back to be truly sustainable. We offset the carbon emissions from transporting and washing the cups to the events. Covid prevents bar operators from reusing cups and if we thought Covid had an impact on our daily lives, Climate Change will trump that ten times over.
I hope this helps explain what the ONE Planet ONE Chance System is about, please feel free to check out our website.
Agree good idea but didn’t work or rather wasn’t followed. No refills and charged an extra 20p each time. Most places did not advertise the price of the cup either. And if you did want to refill cup collectors were coming and collecting without asking
Terrible idea just a money making scam.
I noticed a marked increase in the number of cups just dropped on the floor once the bar staff stopped refilling/exchanging for free and charging 20p each time. A larger deposit and allow for refilling or exchange each time you buy a drink would be much more of an incentive.
This wasnt that great. Got charged an extra 20p with every pint even though I took our cups back 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
As has been said. This was nothing but a money making ploy. Get drink. Pay for cup. Return cup. You don’t pay for cup again. Seems so simple but money got in the way. Again.
I imagine that the 20p charge each time goes towards the cleaning and run of the scheme. COVID makes is impossible to refill like we used to. They could charge a higher deposit, say £1, and then exchange cups throughout without additional charges.
With it being Carfest and obviously a few people driving it would have been nice to have Heineken 0.0 or another alcohol free drink on draft rather than cans.
It didn’t work got charged every drink and got a new cup. Was quite happy to keep the same one x
Katie Chesher Kirsten Owbridge – something to watch out for. Apparently they got charged 20p extra every time, even when returning glass?🤷
How about paper cups makes you drink super fast!
I didn’t get it! I got charged 20p for every pint even though I gave my cup back. A very odd premise really! Just put the beers at £6.20 so people don’t get annoyed at having to pay 20p per drink for having their beer in a cup (which is quite a necessity!) would have preferred to do what Glasto does and give my own cup for the beer to be filled into making my pint 20p cheaper.
Shame you can’t take them home, in 2019 you paid a larger deposit exchanged at the end of the festival for a Carfest cup to take home. Still got ours and use them most days 🙂
Depended who took your order sometimes I paid the extra 20p and others didn’t. The beer was pricey as it was. Need to sort out for next year!
In reality it was an extra 20p on each pint so why didn’t they just do that.
When I went for my first drink I was asked if I had a glass and was told it was 20p for the glass. However it wasn’t explained that it was 20p every time. As people have already said it would have been better to charge £2 for the weekend. Could still have used the same glasses and used an exchange system. It would then not have needed staff to collect them in.
If you questioned it they took the 20p off. So they the bar staff obviously knew what they were doing.
Carfest is a brilliant weekend. But the overpriced bar is one of a few problems.
Don’t see what the initiative achieved other than allowing you to charge 20p extra for drinks each time. I had thought the point was you re-used the cup not only from an eco perspective but because it was safer regarding covid. That wasn’t possible as staff had pints lined up ready to be served which I appreciate sped up service but achieved nothing from a H&S or green context.
The hole food and drinks was very pricey if you had a family to feed I understand if part of there proceeds go to children’s charity
Nice sentiment, but going on the amount of bottles, cans and the 20p cups discarded across the floor in front of the main stages and around the fields not quite sure how it worked other than increasing profit ? The 20p a cup every time on top of the £6 -£6.50 a pint probably increased the amount of discarded bottles and cans brought in or bought from stall holders, rather than a more reasonable price per drink and having some decent recycling facilities/receptacles around. 20p doesn’t stop people throwing cups down. Other festivals sell a decent cup at a set price and as a souvenir for the first draw and then just swap every time you get a new drink.
I got charged for every cup after Friday night. I queried it when they stopped taking the 20p off, and was told that it had been like this all weekend.
Also, and this is a biggie for me, the card system they used, didn’t allow you to see how much you were being charged, as you tapped the back of the tablet without the display being shown.
I asked to see the display each time, and twice they had charged me for an extra drink. How many times this happened over the weekend to other people, makes me shudder. 🙄🤔😳
So I think what’s being said is that if the bar used their own cups a beer would have cost £6 but there would have been (more) plastic waste?
I think a more palettable option would have been a one off payment.
It just seems like a cheap airline money making scheme.
You have to pay extra for something you can’t avoid?
Next time they will charge for food containers.
Then a pound per tent pitch square metre..
There would be huge queues if they had to pull the pints each time. The system would work if you just pay for the beer when you return a cup. No 20p. Otherwise it’s just a money spinner disguised.
Nearly broke my ankle treading on these sturdy cups! They didn’t refill them when we took them back – just charged again for another one! 🤬
Not a great idea in reality. People should be encouraged to bring their own reusable own drink vessels instead or have a deposit scheme with money back upon return. The cups used are breakable, and have a limited number of uses so ultimately not great for the environment. The big issue for most people was the additional cost, I heard they even charged people ordering a can coke when cup wasn’t needed. We are all trying to be more eco friendly but sorry, the overwhelming majority of people don’t agree with the concept on offer.