Recycling your single use cup at Stansted Airport

Bins in Stansted Airport Departures. Presumably that big open mouth in the centre goes straight to landfill, despite the word "Recycle" on the side. Happy to be proved wrong!

Pret A Manger, Stansted Airport Departure Lounge

All Pret A Manger's food and drinks are supplied in single use packaging (no crockery and no washing up, in other words).

I wonder what happens to the contents of their in-store bins? The company website is elusive on this point. So it all goes to landfill, I'm thinking.

[You can, however, drink coffee from crockery at Not Always Caviar, just opposite Pret.]

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Going back a bit, to Paddington station, I found it pretty difficult to buy a drink in crockery (I eventually succeeded in Starbucks, next to the entrance to the Hilton). Of course it's no secret that staff prefer to avoid the bother of washing up, and often switch to single-use cups in the last hour of the day. But the staff have limited power. It's the coffee chains themselves who, in London especially,  are desperate to multiply outlets but to save every square inch of space. Solution, the express stall: no crockery and no dishwasher... simples. Sadly, central London is packed with thousands of express stalls issuing millions of single use cups.