Recycling Coffee Cups includes:
Disposable coffee cups
Single-use coffee cups
Takeaway coffee cup
Liquid paperboard cups
Biodegradable coffee cups
Compostable coffee cups
1950 Camden Valley Way, Edmondson Park
2.2km
187 Wilson Road, Green Valley
3.0km
2355 Camden Valley Way (Corner Beech Road), Casula
3.6km
124 Hoxton Park Road, Lurnea
4.3km
352 Elizabeth Drive, Mount Pritchard
5.0km
615-621 Cowpasture Road, Edensor Park
5.6km
95 Elizabeth Drive, Liverpool
5.8km
4 Lancaster Street, Ingleburn
6.3km
140 Edensor & Bibbys Roads, Bonnyrigg
6.4km
464 Cabramatta Road West, Mount Pritchard
6.6km
72 Cumberland Road, Ingleburn
7.6km
102 Heathcote Road, Moorebank
7.7km
485 - 487 Smithfield Road, Prairiewood
8.1km
7 Raby Road, Leppington
9.3km
234 Hamilton Road, Fairfield West
10.1km
320 Polding Street, Fairfield
10.2km
Lot 1 Ben Lomond Road, Minto
11.0km
44 Hume Highway & Knight Street, Lansvale South
11.1km
48 Surrey Avenue, Georges Hall
13.2km
Gate A, Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek
13.4km
102 Milperra Road, Revesby
14.1km
71 Blaxland Road, Campbelltown
15.0km
96 Queen & Broughton Streets, Campbelltown
15.0km
295 Canterbury Road & Mavis Street, Revesby
15.2km
Lot 1, 519 Hume Highway, Yagoona
15.5km
271 Queen Street, Campbelltown
15.6km
180 Reservoir Road, Arndell Park
15.6km
601 Great Western Hwy, Greystanes
15.7km
122 Old Town Centre Plaza, Bankstown
15.8km
272-278 Woodville Road, Guildford
16.1km
295-297 Merrylands Road (Corner Windsor Street), Merrylands
16.1km
815 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
16.1km
4 Endeavour & Bennett Roads, St Clair
16.6km
180 Stacey & Stanley Streets, Bankstown
16.9km
200 Gilchrist Drive, Campbelltown
16.9km
1042 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
17.0km
354 Corner Flushcombe Road, Blacktown
17.0km
217 Wentworth Avenue (Corner Bungaree Road), Pendle Hill
17.4km
301-305 Hume Highway & Boronia Road, Greenacre
17.4km
Corner Allison Crescent & Menai Road, Menai
17.7km
3/2133 Great Western Highway (Cnr John Hines Ave), Minchinbury
17.8km
62 Walters Road, Blacktown
17.9km
67 Woodhouse Drive, Ambarvale
17.9km
110 Eastern Road, Bungarribee
18.0km
56 Leabons Lane (Corner Blacktown Road), Blacktown East
18.0km
176 Fowler Street, Guildford
18.1km
154-160 Parramatta Road & Corner Bold Street, Granville
18.3km
3 Metella Road, Toongabbie
18.3km
104 Great Western Highway & Bennett Road, Colyton
18.6km
Corner Evans & 108 Rooty Hill Roads, Rooty Hill
18.6km
30 Bonds Road (Corner Romilly Street), Riverwood
18.8km
13 Parramatta Road, Clyde
18.8km
10 Main Street, Blacktown
18.8km
Lot 6 Luxford Road, Mount Druitt
18.9km
Corner Mamre Road & Wilson Street, St Marys
19.0km
262 Church Street, Parramatta
19.0km
Shop 173 Corner Carlisle Avenue & Luxford Road, Mt Druitt
19.1km
Corner Appin Road & Kellerman Drive, St Helens Park
19.5km
161 Penshurst Road (Corner Hannans Road), Narwee
19.8km
151 Prospect Hwy & Corner Station Road, Seven Hills
19.9km
291 Rooty Hill Road North, Plumpton
20.1km
222 King Georges Road (Corner Canarys Road), Lakemba
20.1km
81 Victoria Road & Macarthur Street, Parramatta
20.1km
175 Richmond Road, Blacktown
20.1km
56 Windsor Road & Northmead Avenue, Northmead
20.5km
577 Great Western Hwy, Werrington
20.6km
575-585 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South
20.7km
612 Forest Road, Penshurst
20.8km
Cnr Hyatts & Jersey Roads, Plumpton
21.1km
137 Windsor Road, Northmead
21.2km
363 Vardys Road, Kings Park
21.3km
792-794 Canterbury Road Chapel Street, Belmore
21.3km
Shop 1, 135-137 Popondetta Road, Emerton
21.4km
1 Dublin Street, Glendenning
21.5km
693 Old Princes Highway, Sutherland
21.6km
Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Olympic Park
21.7km
Corner Forrester Road & Christie Street, St Marys
21.8km
15-19 Aspen Street, Penrith South
22.0km
795 Luxford Road (Corner Buckwell Drive), Hassall Grove
22.1km
217-219 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills
22.1km
127 Great Western Highway (Corner Morley Avenue), Kingswood
22.7km
334-340 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
22.8km
14 The Boulevarde, Strathfield
23.0km
2 Birmingham Road, South Penrith
23.1km
529-531 Princes Highway & Bath Road, Kirrawee
23.1km
542 Princes Highway, Kirrawee
23.1km
83 Lalor Road & Quakers Hill Parkway, Quakers Hill
23.1km
Lot 122 Dunheved Road, Werrington
23.2km
822 King Georges Road & Joffre St, South Hurstville
23.3km
95 Burwood Road, Burwood
23.7km
861 Richmond Road, Marsden Park
23.9km
45 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
24.0km
110 Gymea Bay Road, Gymea
24.1km
243 Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford
24.2km
611-615 Forest Road (Corner Mimosa Street), Bexley
24.3km
340 North Rocks Road, North Rocks
24.3km
Cnr Parramatta & Shaftsbury Rds, Burwood
24.4km
30 Henry Street, Penrith
24.4km
92 Mulgoa Road & Batt Street, Jamisontown
24.7km
Corner Mulgoa Road and Wolseley Street, Jamisontown
24.7km
439 Princes Highway (Corner Massey Street), Allawah
24.8km
474 Forest Road, Bexley
24.9km
36 Mulgoa Road, Regentville
24.9km
588 High Street, Penrith
25.3km
670 New Canterbury Road (Corner Melford Street), Hurlstone Park
25.5km
132 Liverpool Road, Ashfield
25.7km
919 Victoria Road (Corner Hermitage Road), West Ryde
25.9km
99 Railway Street (Corner Frederick Street), Rockdale
25.9km
255 -257 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill
25.9km
54 - 56 Windsor Road, Kellyville
26.2km
123 Parraweena Road, Taren Point
26.3km
476 Rocky Point Road & Sandringham Street, Sans Souci
26.4km
231-235 Great North Road, Five Dock
26.4km
49-51 Great Western Highway, Emu Plains
26.6km
326-328 Blaxland Road, Ryde
26.8km
25 Parramatta Road, Haberfield
26.9km
293 West Botany Street (Cnr Bestic Street), Rockdale
27.0km
367 The Kingsway (Corner Willarong Road), Caringbah
27.0km
28 Princes Highway, Arncliffe
27.3km
552 Pennant Hills Road, West Pennant Hills
27.4km
246 Beecroft & Carlingford Roads, Epping
27.5km
227 Marrickville Road, Marrickville
27.9km
126-128 Old Bathurst Road, Emu Plains
28.2km
49 Garfield Road East, Riverstone
28.4km
192-198 The Kingsway, Woolooware
28.5km
212-222 Andrews & Castlereagh Roads, Cranebrook
28.5km
271A Victoria Road, Drummoyne
28.9km
22 Stanmore Road (Corner Fotheringham Street), Enmore
29.2km
Cnr Herring & Waterloo Rds, North Ryde
29.7km
198 Parramatta Road (Corner Pyrmont Bridge Road), Annandale
29.8km
178-184 Victoria Road (Corner Moodie Street), Rozelle
29.8km
13 Halifax St, Macquarie Park
30.0km
400 Lane Cove Road, North Ryde
30.1km
51-53 Kingsway (Corner Gosport Street), Cronulla
30.1km
139 Great Western Highway (Corner Layton Avenue), Blaxland
31.0km
57 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
31.4km
Suite 16, Ultimo
31.9km
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Rd, (Shop 11, 37 Ultimo Road), Sydney
32.5km
Shop 19, 2 Lee Street, Haymarket
32.6km
477 Pacific Highway, Artarmon
32.6km
12 - 14 Goulburn Street (Corner Sussex Street), Sydney
32.7km
465 Kent Street, Sydney
32.9km
412 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
32.9km
414 Pitt Street, Sydney
33.0km
Shop 6/242 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
33.1km
64 Clarence Street, Sydney
33.1km
287 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
33.2km
Shop 1 92 Hampden Road, Artarmon
33.3km
494 Pacific Hwy, Killara
33.4km
1408 Pacific Highway (Corner Duff Street), Turramurra
33.4km
5 Cumberland Street, The Rocks
33.5km
735 George Street, Bligh Park
33.6km
238 Pacific Highway, Lindfield
33.6km
352 Bourke St, Surry Hills
33.7km
1579 Pacific Highway (Corner Redleaf Avenue), Wahroonga
33.8km
Westfield Shopping Centre; Cnr Anderson, Albert & Spring Streets, Sydney
33.9km
Corner Pacific Highway & Boundary Street, Roseville
33.9km
131 Anzac Parade & Todman Avenue, Kensington
33.9km
110 Anzac Parade & Goodwood Street, Kensington
34.1km
59 Oxford Street, Paddington
34.1km
515 Bunnerong Road, Matraville
34.8km
128 Barker Street, Randwick
35.0km
142 Windsor Road (Corner Mulgrave Road), McGraths Hill
35.3km
Pacific Square Shopping Centre, 737 Anzac Pde, Maroubra Junction
35.3km
755 Anzac Parade, Maroubra Junction
35.3km
159 Mona Vale Road (Corner Putarri Avenue), St Ives
35.6km
12 Hawkesbury Valley Way, Windsor
36.0km
1 Meagher Avenue (Corner Malabar Road), Maroubra
36.3km
45 Spit Road, Mosman
37.8km
162A Spit Road, Mosman
38.0km
197-215 Condamine St, Balgowlah
40.8km
Cnr Condamine St & Pittwater Rd. Dock E and E1 access via ramp off Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale
42.3km
28 Dale Street, Brookvale
42.5km
110-112 The Corso, Manly
42.7km
965-969 Pacific Highway (Corner Waratah Road), Berowra
43.5km
940 Pittwater Road & Hawkesbury Avenue, Dee Why
45.0km
1234 Pittwater Road, Narrabeen
47.3km
1497 Pittwater Road & Gondola Street, Narrabeen
47.8km
138-146 Princes Highway, Corrimal
48.8km
31 Goodhugh Street, East Maitland
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New South Wales
Level 8/11 York St, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney
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Coffee cups should not be put in your recycling bin at home or work. They can, however, be taken to a designated recycling point.
Simply Cups has partnered with 7-Eleven and various shopping centres, schools, and community groups to provide the public with more than 1,500 recycling drop-off locations for disposable coffee cups, including compostable cups. Use the directory on this page to find a location near you.
Simply Cups also accepts other paper cups including takeaway soft drink cups, milkshake cups, Slurpee cups, compostable cups and plant-based paper cups. Coffee cup lids and drinking straws are only accepted at participating 7-Eleven stores.
Image credit: Simply Cups.
Australians use 1.8 billion single-use, hot beverage cups every year, with many being littered. When they are sent to landfill, the cardboard fibre of the cup releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Recycling coffee cups:
Prevents harmful greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere
Ensures the materials are used again in new products and applications
Simply Cups recycles used coffee cups into a new raw material that can be used to make asphalt, light-weight concrete and low-carbon building materials.
Image credit: Simply Cups.
Recycling is a great way to prevent waste from going to landfill but reducing the number of disposable cups you use will have an even better environmental impact. Australians can reduce their coffee cup waste by using a reusable coffee cup or simply drinking the coffee from crockery.
You can also choose to buy coffee from cafes that are making an effort to reduce their environmental impact by searching Responsible Cafes. The cafes are given ratings based on their positive environmental actions such as composting coffee grounds and using ethically sourced coffee beans.
Coffee cups cannot be recycled via household recycling bins. However, there is a specialised recycling program for disposable coffee cups with drop-off points located around Australia. Use the directory on this page to find a location near you.
Plastic takeaway cups used for iced coffee can be recycled via your household recycling bin in most council areas in Australia. Check directly with your council to be sure.
Coffee cup lids should not be put in your recycling bin at home. They can, however, be recycled by dropping them off at one of the many recycling collection points located around Australia. Use the directory on this page to find a location near you.
No – compostable coffee cups cannot be recycled via household recycling bins. They can, however, be dropped off for recycling at one of the many recycling points around Australia. Use the directory on this page to find one near you.
Under the right circumstances, compostable cups can be composted. If you have a compost at home, make sure the cup is certified home compostable to the Australian standard before you put it in your compost. Look for the Home Compostable AS 5810 logo on the cup. If the cup features the Compostable AS 4736 logo, that means the cup can only be composted using industrial equipment and should not be put in your home compost.
If you have a FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) bin, check with your council to see if they accept compostable packaging including compostable coffee cups. If they do, you should still check the cup has either the compostable (industrial) or home compostable logos.
If you do not have access to a compost, composting service or recycling point, compostable coffee cups should be put in the garbage bin.
No – biodegradable coffee cups cannot be recycled via household recycling bins.
If you have a FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) bin, check with your council to see if they accept biodegradable packaging, like BioCups, in these bins.
No – BioCup coffee cups cannot be recycled via household recycling bins.
If you have a FOGO (Food Organics and Garden Organics) bin, check with your council to see if they accept biodegradable packaging, like BioCups, in these bins.
Yes – most councils in Australia accept clear plastic takeaway drink cups in household recycling bins. Visit your council’s page on Recycling Near You for more information on what your council accepts via your recycling bin.
If you’re ever confused about what you can place in your household recycling bin, you can contact your local council for more information.
No – Styrofoam or polystyrene containers and packaging should never be put in household recycling bins. While polystyrene can technically be recycled, it requires special technology and infrastructure. Polystyrene should be put in your garbage bin.
It is estimated that Australians use and throw away 2.7 million coffee cups every day! When they are sent to landfill, the cardboard fibre of the cup releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Recycling disposable coffee cups at designated collection points will ensure the resources used to make the cup and the lid are used again. This prevents the extraction of new resources from the earth and, in turn, reduces greenhouse gas emissions.