Mullumbimby businesses have partnered with Byron Shire Council to say no to single-use coffee cups in July.
Council staff say in a media release, ‘When people go to grab their daily cuppa at their favourite haunt in Mullum and they’ve forgotten their reusable cup, they can pay a small deposit to borrow a ‘good’ cup which is refunded when it is returned’.
‘Statistics from Department of Climate Change, Energy and the Environment and Water found that Australians use 1.8 billion single-use, hot beverage cups each year, that’s almost 500,000 cups that are sent to landfill each day’.
Cafes in Mullumbimby taking part in Reuse July include: The Other Joint, Bimbi, Ya’man, Santos Organics, The Paddock, Heaps Good and Lulus.
Sarah Child, Council’s Resource Recovery Strategy and Engagement Officer, says, ‘I would love to see the number of takeaway coffee cups used in Mullum plummet in July, so I am inviting everyone to join the challenge’.
Businesses wanting to take part in Reuse July can email Anika Brown at [email protected].
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