Now is the time to get rid of that single-use cups for your coffee!
Did you know that worldwide, we go through 500 BILLION disposable coffee cups each year? These cups are designed to be used for the duration of one drink and then thrown away. Sadly, they cannot be recycled and do not decompose fully.
They end up in landfills or in the environment where they need 500 to 1000 years to break down into smaller and smaller pieces, all the while harming nature, animals, and, lastly, us.
Australia alone has an estimated use of 1 billion disposable coffee cups every year equivalent to approximately 2,700,000 paper coffee cups thrown out every day (1 out 10 people throw 1 cup per day). Coffee and other hot beverage cups are estimated to be the second-largest contributor to litter after plastic bottles. Although some are accepted for recycling, they can’t be efficiently processed in most paper recycling mills due to the thin plastic lining which makes them waterproof so the majority has to go to landfills- responsible for around 60,000kg of plastic per annum. (Source: cleanup.org.au)
