plastic bags, produce wrappings, yogurt and margarine tubs, coffee cups and to-go food containers — were reprocessed at rates of less than five percent. Despite often carrying the recycling ...

New research shows Aussie discard more than 9.7 billion pieces of single-use plastic each year. Our coffee cups and plastic bag waste alone lined up end to end would extend a whopping 1.47 million ...

Western Australia is set to be the first state to remove plastic-lined coffee cups and lids from use - but there are fears customers will pay extra for their caffeine hit after the move.

While much of the body of the coffee cups are made of cardboard, they are usually lined in plastic so the liquid doesn't make the cup soggy. If disposed of in general waste, compostable coffee ...

South Australia has also committed to banning single-use plastic cups from sale by September 2024. The Victorian or NSW governments have raised no ban on coffee cups.

WA is set to phase out disposable plastic coffee cups and plastic lids for hot drinks this year. There is also a proposal to extend a ban on microbeads in rinse-off personal care products to all ...

The ban will see commonplace items such as coffee cups and takeaway containers banned in several states as crackdowns on single-use plastic progress. From September 1, Queensland, South Australia ...