We want to make it as easy as possible to get refills of your favourite coffees and to recycle any packaging you no longer need.

COFFEE REFILLS

Hang on to your old Steampunk Coffee tins, here are three easy ways you can refill:

1. In store: if you live locally, pop into our shop in North Berwick and get your coffee tin filled up with any of our current coffees. We will also give you £1 off what that coffee would otherwise cost new. If you don't have one of our old tins you can pick up one of our new 'Steampug' coffee canisters.

2. Online: all of our coffees are available in 1kg bags which can be used to top up a smaller container at home, which saves packaging.

3. Subscribe: choose one of our subscriptions and we will post 250g out to you at a frequency of your choosing in a flat envelope that fits through your letterbox. You can then just pop those beans into your tin for safekeeping.

We want to reduce our environmental footprint as much as possible and have worked hard over the years on our packaging as a part of that. We know that it is really important to let you, the user of our products, know how to recycle or dispose of all of our packaging. This area is an absolute minefield and can be so confusing, even to those who are nerdy enough to have written multiple blog posts on the subject*.

Here's the lowdown on how to recycle your Steampunk packaging:

  • Tins - recycle with metals (widely available)
  • Bags (1kg and 250g retail & subscription bags) - #4 (LDPE—Low Density Polyethylene) which can be recycled with carrier bags. These are widely collected at supermarkets and may even be collected by your local council.
  • Shipping boxes and tape - can be recycled with cardboard
  • Shipping peanuts - these are made of non toxic plant starch and dissolve in water - they can be thrown in your compost or go in the bin.

 

* Want to read more about our packaging journey? Here's our blog posts:

Our journey towards more eco friendly packaging (Dec 2020)

Packaging: it may be time for a radical rethink (April 2021)

Coffee Tins & Refills (July 2023) 

Packaging Update (July 2026)