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"The world drinks 400 billion coffees a year and in New Zealand, we're slurping coffee and biffing the cups away at record speed.
We toss away 100 million cups a year and the final resting place of those cups are overcrowded landfills.
A hundred million crushed cups an enough to fill nearly two Olympic swimming pools, or a rugby field 60 cm deep of coffee cup waste, or a cone as high as the Sky Tower. Laid end to end, the cup waste each year would take the nation from New Zealand to Honolulu." (Source: www.newshub.co.nz, from the article, Why coffee lovers are polluting NZ landfills)
Imagine that for every 100 SoL Cups sold, that's 75,000 single-use cups saved from landfills/our oceans. So if 1 million SoLmates in the NZ committed to using a reusable coffee cup, we could save over 750 million from landing in landfills just in the NZ. Which sounds like a lot, but is just a drop in the ocean! 1 million people is only 3% of the population. When you start to talk numbers it just blows your mind!
There are four practical things that you can do to reduce coffee cup landfills that will not mean giving up your daily coffee ritual.
Here are some more facts:
Disposable paper cups contain 5% polyurethane plastic, making composting and recycling of disposable cups extremely rare. Half a trillion disposable cups are manufactured annually around the world; that’s over 70 disposable cups for every person on the planet. Most plastic used in the world today is for single-use items.
Very little recycled paper is used to make disposable cups due to health risk concerns.
https://reusaboo.com/top-8-problems-with-disposable-coffee-cups/
