Calculate your savings

📊 Tell us about your site

Enter the number of people using cups at your site, how many days per week you operate, and average cups used per person per day. This helps us calculate your total cup usage.

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Your Site

1,000
cups per day average

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🔍 Your Current Workflow

Use the sliders to show how your cups are currently served and cleaned. Adjust each slider until the percentages add up to 100%. This represents your current cup usage breakdown.

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Your Current Mix

🥤 Paper Cups
30%
300 cups/day
🧼 Hand Washing
20%
200 cups/day
🍽️ Dishwasher
50%
500 cups/day
Total is 100% - you're all set!

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✨ Your Optimised Workflow with instarinse®

Choose a preset scenario for your site type, or manually adjust the sliders to create your ideal workflow with instarinse®. The sliders must add up to 100%.

Quick Start: Choose Your Site Type

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With instarinse®

🥤 Paper Cups
0%
50 cups/day
🌿 instarinse®
70%
700 cups/day
🧼 Hand Washing
10%
100 cups/day
🍽️ Dishwasher
20%
150 cups/day
Perfect! Your percentages add up to 100%

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⚙️ Fine-tune Your Calculations

Review and adjust the cost assumptions and metrics below. These values are used to calculate your savings. Click "Adjust Assumptions" to customize costs, water usage, energy consumption, and more.

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The Numbers

⚙️ Customize Your Calculations

Fine-tune the assumptions used in your savings calculations including costs, water usage, energy rates, and more to match your specific situation.

Paper Cup
28p (per cup) ? Cup price only
Cost (per cup) 28p
Water (per cup) 0.25L
CO₂ (per cup) 10g
Energy (per cup) 0.06kWh
Labour (per cup) 0 sec
Manufacturing + disposal costs
Hand Washing
3p (per cup) ? Detergent + Energy (water heating)
Detergent (per cup) 1p
Water (per cup) 1.0L
CO₂ (per cup) 20g
Energy (per cup) 0.08kWh
Labour (per cup) 0 sec
Self-service (no labour cost)
Dishwasher
6p (per cup) ? Energy + Labour + Detergent (per load ÷ capacity)
Total cost (per load) £2.40
Water (per cup) 0.33L
CO₂ (per cup) 4g
Energy (per cup) 0.02kWh
Labour time (per load) 10 min
40 cups per load • Includes loading/unloading
instarinse®
1.2p (per cup) ? Energy + Labour (minimal maintenance)
Operation cost (per cup) 1.2p
Water (per cup) 50ml
CO₂ (per cup) 0g
Energy (per cup) 0.01kWh
Maintenance (per 100 cups) 5 min
Maintenance includes tank changes & daily cleaning

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🎯 Your Annual Impact

Based on your inputs, here's your potential annual impact when switching to instarinse®. The cards below show your cost savings, water conservation, carbon emissions reduction, and energy savings per year.

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Your Annual Impact

💰
£15,000
Cost Savings
💧
3,250,000
Water Conserved
🌍
4,500
CO₂ Eliminated
1,700
Energy Saved

The Breakdown

Click any card to see detailed breakdown by cleaning method

£
Annual Cost +
Current
£25,000
With instarinse®
£10,000
£15,000 saved (60%)
Paper cups
£8,000 £400
Hand washing
£600 £150
Dishwasher
£16,400 £4,920
instarinse®
£0 £4,980
H₂O
Water Usage +
Current
3,500,000L
With instarinse®
250,000L
3,250,000L saved (93%)
Paper cups
7,500L 1,250L
Hand washing
20,000L 10,000L
Dishwasher
330,000L 99,000L
instarinse®
0L 175,000L
CO₂
Carbon Emissions +
Current
6,000kg
With instarinse®
1,500kg
4,500kg saved (75%)
Paper cups
360kg 60kg
Hand washing
400kg 200kg
Dishwasher
200kg 60kg
instarinse®
0kg 140kg
kWh
Energy Usage +
Current
2,500 kWh
With instarinse®
800 kWh
1,700 kWh saved (68%)
Paper cups
1,800 kWh 300 kWh
Hand washing
1,600 kWh 800 kWh
Dishwasher
225 kWh 67.5 kWh
instarinse®
0 kWh 560 kWh

📊 Export Detailed Report

Download a comprehensive Excel report containing all site details, cleaning mixes, assumptions, calculations, and results for your records.

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