Disposable Coffee Cups

At the moment Australians are sending around four hundred million non-recyclable coffee cups to landfill a year. It takes around forty litres of water to manufacture a paper cup and a plastic lid—that's two thirds of a bathtub of water for each cup and lid.

So that means we use something like 16,000,000,000L of fresh water to make all those disposable coffee cups.

Lugging My Mug

I have a mug at work which I take with me to the café. My local café is very happy to fill up my mug for me. It saves them the expense of a take-away cup and I often pay a little extra to have it filled all the way to the top. Other cafés are also happy to fill up my mug. It’s easy to do and it saves almost a bathtub of fresh water. Think how many more delicious coffees that could make!