Save-a-cup pencils, United Kingdom. Save-a-cup pencils - made from recycled vending machine cups The Save a Cup scheme of the vending, food service and plastics industries, collect the millions of hard-wall polystyrene cups used in the UK every week.The scheme is administered by the Save a Cup Recycling Company. more than a billion cups collected. the company's objective is to increase the number of cups collected in line with Government targets for recycling, packaging, waste,