Reusable Coffee Mug


Awareness

Like many Australians, I try to do the "right thing" for the environment while still living a regular lifestyle in (the increasingly hipsterfied) Hobart. I use a reusable cup for takeaway coffee, have a selection of non-plastic bags I take grocery shopping, and try to make choices to buy things with as little packaging as possible. But a quick look into whether these behaviors are really the "right things" to be doing left me depressed, discouraged and feeling defeated. Australia's recycling systems still rely heavily on shipping our waste to other countries for them to deal with.

Getting customers

Since China largely stopped accepting our waste in 2018, this has meant much of what could be recycled is being sent to landfill or is sitting in stockpiles, waiting for something to happen. My week without buying plastic One week's worth of plastic. We try to avoid it, but plastic is everywhere. Here's how one reporter's seven-day test went down. Read more While we know single-use plastics contribute to pollution and have been linked to killing seabirds (and just about everything else), replacing one plastic with another without thinking about how we use these products isn't necessarily much better in the long run. Trevor Thornton, from Deakin University's School of Life and Environmental Sciences, has written about the commonly asked "how many times do you need to reuse a shopping bag" question for The Conversation.

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That impact depends on whether you use hot or cold water, whether your hot water comes from coal-power electricity or hydro or solar, what types of detergents you use, whether you're on tank water, have a septic tank, how much water you use, how often you wash it and on and on. So, if you're in Victoria, where coal power is the main source of electricity, and you wash your cup with detergents, it might actually be better for the environment to use a composable disposable cup and put the plastic lid in the recycling.

Promotion

The idea is you pay a deposit to use the metal bowl, which you get back when the bowl is returned. The bowl itself is stainless steel that's made of high levels of recycled materials and has high value as a recyclable material when its useful life is over. It's also insulated, making it a better alternative to current takeaway container options.
"One part of it is to replace the plastic packaging, but the other part is to try and make the eating experience better," Jamie says.



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