Case study: Morning Glory Café's reusable cup challenge
With several sustainable options already in place, Morning Glory Café, which overlooks Coogee beach, launched a 3-week challenge in November 2024, in a bid to ramp up reusable cup usage and reduce waste over busiest season. The challenge culminated in ‘BYO Cup Day,’ when the café aimed to serve every single drink in a reusable cup.
How to guide: Choosing the right reusables
When hospitality businesses choose to help the planet by embracing reusables, they can also boost profits and reduce packaging costs while modelling positive behaviour change in their local community.
How to guide: Measuring your reusables progress
Tracking the progress of your changes using simple data collection methods can show you whether your customer base is responding to your reusables campaign.
Fact sheet: Five tips to reuse success
Encouraging reusables is an easy way to make your café more sustainable. You’ll make an impact on the environment, reduce packaging costs and help your customers drive positive change in their local community.
Case studies: The Reusable Café Project
By supporting café owners to promote sustainable alternatives to take-away coffee cups, the Reusable Café Project saw reusable cups increase from an average of 13% of coffees to 30%, with some cafés serving up to 60% of coffees in a reusable cup.
Case study: shared mug library
In this case study, we shine the spotlight on two Paddington businesses, Tuckerbox and Wolf Café, and a new initiative, the Paddo Cup Project, which was set up by the local chamber of commerce.
Case study: re-building reusable use post-COVID
The project team noticed a common theme when meeting with café owners: reusable use was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, when some businesses stopped accepting keep cups and the like, in case there was a contamination risk.
Former Truegain site owner to pay $400K over failure to clean up contamination
The owner of a former waste oil refinery in Rutherford has been convicted for failing to comply with a clean-up notice and a prohibition notice.
Case study: Cat & Cow Coffee's single-use surcharge
Cat & Cow opened as a reusable-cup-only café in August 2019, after fitting out the premises using recycled materials and second-hand equipment.
Fact sheet: Myths vs reality
Café owners often defer to common myths and misconceptions when thinking about incorporating reusables. Myths usually reflect a fear of change, rather than the reality of the situation.