We all love our coffee, and for good reason. But have you ever stopped to think about the impact of all those disposable coffee cups? We worked out that Australian's go through 660 million disposable coffee cups a year, based on a population of 22 million, and assuming 15% of the population buy 5 disposable coffee cups each week.
This is the equivalent of approximately 108,900 trees (based on 0.000165 trees per cup), or approximately 9,900 tonnes of landfill (based on a weight of 15 grams per cup). And we haven't even considered the impact of plastic lids!
So buy a BYO coffee cup from Neco and enjoy your coffee guilt free! And if you're worried about the overall impact of embodied energy and producing a new cup, research tells us it takes 0.55MJ on average to make a regular paper cup. In comparison, the equivalent grams of silicone produced use 1.24MJ of energy. Given these measures, and allowing for weight, the BYO Coffee Cup breaks even after 10 uses.
