Sunday is International Coffee Day

International Coffee Day is on Sunday, 1 October and coffee lovers in Scotland are being urged to book their tickets for the capital’s coffee festival on Saturday 14 October.

The Corn Exchange plays host to the third Edinburgh Coffee Festival, an event which is expected to bring together 3,000 coffee lovers, 40 speciality coffee and tea exhibitors and some of the best hot chocolate, coffee cocktails plus food and cake from across Scotland.

For the first time, the event will be zero waste and it will be the first coffee festival in the UK to do so.

Organisers are encouraging visitors to think about how they can use compostable or reusable cups when consuming their favourite hot beverage.

Every day in the UK over seven million coffee cups are thrown away and only one per cent are recycled.

Martin Dare, event organiser said: “With everyone leading such busy lifestyles, coffee is increasingly consumed on the go and we want to encourage visitors to think carefully about how much waste that generates and work with us to make the event zero waste.”

Tickets to the Edinburgh Coffee Festival can be purchased online at www.edinburghcoffeefestival.co.uk and start at £10.