Recycling Coffee Cups includes:
Disposable coffee cups
Single-use coffee cups
Takeaway coffee cup
Liquid paperboard cups
Biodegradable coffee cups
Compostable coffee cups
45 Spit Road, Mosman
0.9km
162A Spit Road, Mosman
1.5km
5 Cumberland Street, The Rocks
4.4km
197-215 Condamine St, Balgowlah
4.6km
64 Clarence Street, Sydney
5.3km
110-112 The Corso, Manly
5.6km
465 Kent Street, Sydney
5.9km
Shop 1 92 Hampden Road, Artarmon
6.0km
287 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
6.0km
59 Oxford Street, Paddington
6.2km
414 Pitt Street, Sydney
6.3km
12 - 14 Goulburn Street (Corner Sussex Street), Sydney
6.3km
352 Bourke St, Surry Hills
6.3km
477 Pacific Highway, Artarmon
6.5km
Shop 6/242 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
6.5km
Westfield Shopping Centre; Cnr Anderson, Albert & Spring Streets, Sydney
6.6km
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Rd, (Shop 11, 37 Ultimo Road), Sydney
6.7km
412 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
7.0km
Shop 19, 2 Lee Street, Haymarket
7.0km
Suite 16, Ultimo
7.2km
Cnr Condamine St & Pittwater Rd. Dock E and E1 access via ramp off Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale
7.3km
57 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
7.5km
Corner Pacific Highway & Boundary Street, Roseville
7.7km
178-184 Victoria Road (Corner Moodie Street), Rozelle
7.8km
28 Dale Street, Brookvale
7.8km
271A Victoria Road, Drummoyne
8.7km
110 Anzac Parade & Goodwood Street, Kensington
8.7km
238 Pacific Highway, Lindfield
9.0km
198 Parramatta Road (Corner Pyrmont Bridge Road), Annandale
9.0km
131 Anzac Parade & Todman Avenue, Kensington
9.1km
128 Barker Street, Randwick
10.1km
940 Pittwater Road & Hawkesbury Avenue, Dee Why
10.1km
494 Pacific Hwy, Killara
10.1km
22 Stanmore Road (Corner Fotheringham Street), Enmore
10.2km
13 Halifax St, Macquarie Park
10.9km
231-235 Great North Road, Five Dock
11.1km
25 Parramatta Road, Haberfield
11.3km
400 Lane Cove Road, North Ryde
11.8km
227 Marrickville Road, Marrickville
11.9km
Pacific Square Shopping Centre, 737 Anzac Pde, Maroubra Junction
12.3km
755 Anzac Parade, Maroubra Junction
12.4km
132 Liverpool Road, Ashfield
12.4km
Cnr Herring & Waterloo Rds, North Ryde
13.0km
Cnr Parramatta & Shaftsbury Rds, Burwood
13.2km
670 New Canterbury Road (Corner Melford Street), Hurlstone Park
13.3km
1234 Pittwater Road, Narrabeen
13.4km
1 Meagher Avenue (Corner Malabar Road), Maroubra
13.4km
159 Mona Vale Road (Corner Putarri Avenue), St Ives
13.6km
326-328 Blaxland Road, Ryde
13.6km
95 Burwood Road, Burwood
13.9km
919 Victoria Road (Corner Hermitage Road), West Ryde
14.1km
45 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
14.1km
28 Princes Highway, Arncliffe
14.3km
515 Bunnerong Road, Matraville
14.4km
14 The Boulevarde, Strathfield
14.5km
1497 Pittwater Road & Gondola Street, Narrabeen
14.6km
334-340 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
15.2km
1408 Pacific Highway (Corner Duff Street), Turramurra
15.3km
293 West Botany Street (Cnr Bestic Street), Rockdale
15.9km
Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Olympic Park
16.3km
246 Beecroft & Carlingford Roads, Epping
16.4km
99 Railway Street (Corner Frederick Street), Rockdale
16.8km
575-585 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South
16.9km
1579 Pacific Highway (Corner Redleaf Avenue), Wahroonga
17.0km
474 Forest Road, Bexley
17.3km
792-794 Canterbury Road Chapel Street, Belmore
17.9km
611-615 Forest Road (Corner Mimosa Street), Bexley
18.1km
24 Barrenjoey Road (Corner Darley Street East), Mona Vale
18.1km
243 Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford
19.0km
222 King Georges Road (Corner Canarys Road), Lakemba
19.4km
552 Pennant Hills Road, West Pennant Hills
20.1km
439 Princes Highway (Corner Massey Street), Allawah
20.2km
301-305 Hume Highway & Boronia Road, Greenacre
20.4km
13 Parramatta Road, Clyde
20.4km
476 Rocky Point Road & Sandringham Street, Sans Souci
20.5km
161 Penshurst Road (Corner Hannans Road), Narwee
20.6km
307-311 Barrenjoey Road (Corner Seaview Avenue), Newport
20.6km
822 King Georges Road & Joffre St, South Hurstville
20.7km
340 North Rocks Road, North Rocks
20.8km
612 Forest Road, Penshurst
21.0km
81 Victoria Road & Macarthur Street, Parramatta
21.3km
180 Stacey & Stanley Streets, Bankstown
21.4km
154-160 Parramatta Road & Corner Bold Street, Granville
21.5km
30 Bonds Road (Corner Romilly Street), Riverwood
21.8km
262 Church Street, Parramatta
22.2km
Lot 1, 519 Hume Highway, Yagoona
22.3km
122 Old Town Centre Plaza, Bankstown
22.3km
272-278 Woodville Road, Guildford
22.9km
56 Windsor Road & Northmead Avenue, Northmead
23.2km
137 Windsor Road, Northmead
23.4km
295 Canterbury Road & Mavis Street, Revesby
23.7km
295-297 Merrylands Road (Corner Windsor Street), Merrylands
23.9km
965-969 Pacific Highway (Corner Waratah Road), Berowra
24.3km
102 Milperra Road, Revesby
24.6km
48 Surrey Avenue, Georges Hall
24.6km
123 Parraweena Road, Taren Point
24.6km
255 -257 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill
24.6km
367 The Kingsway (Corner Willarong Road), Caringbah
25.6km
51-53 Kingsway (Corner Gosport Street), Cronulla
25.8km
192-198 The Kingsway, Woolooware
26.0km
44 Hume Highway & Knight Street, Lansvale South
26.5km
217 Wentworth Avenue (Corner Bungaree Road), Pendle Hill
26.6km
542 Princes Highway, Kirrawee
27.1km
529-531 Princes Highway & Bath Road, Kirrawee
27.1km
217-219 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills
27.2km
110 Gymea Bay Road, Gymea
27.3km
3 Metella Road, Toongabbie
27.9km
693 Old Princes Highway, Sutherland
27.9km
601 Great Western Hwy, Greystanes
28.5km
151 Prospect Hwy & Corner Station Road, Seven Hills
28.6km
234 Hamilton Road, Fairfield West
28.7km
Corner Allison Crescent & Menai Road, Menai
29.3km
54 - 56 Windsor Road, Kellyville
29.6km
320 Polding Street, Fairfield
29.8km
176 Fowler Street, Guildford
30.0km
56 Leabons Lane (Corner Blacktown Road), Blacktown East
30.4km
102 Heathcote Road, Moorebank
30.5km
464 Cabramatta Road West, Mount Pritchard
31.4km
354 Corner Flushcombe Road, Blacktown
31.6km
95 Elizabeth Drive, Liverpool
31.8km
485 - 487 Smithfield Road, Prairiewood
31.8km
10 Main Street, Blacktown
31.8km
180 Reservoir Road, Arndell Park
32.3km
363 Vardys Road, Kings Park
32.5km
62 Walters Road, Blacktown
32.8km
140 Edensor & Bibbys Roads, Bonnyrigg
33.0km
352 Elizabeth Drive, Mount Pritchard
33.0km
124 Hoxton Park Road, Lurnea
33.2km
175 Richmond Road, Blacktown
33.6km
83 Lalor Road & Quakers Hill Parkway, Quakers Hill
33.9km
Gate A, Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek
34.9km
615-621 Cowpasture Road, Edensor Park
35.4km
187 Wilson Road, Green Valley
35.9km
2355 Camden Valley Way (Corner Beech Road), Casula
36.1km
110 Eastern Road, Bungarribee
36.1km
815 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
36.7km
1 Dublin Street, Glendenning
36.8km
Corner Evans & 108 Rooty Hill Roads, Rooty Hill
38.0km
83 Rawson Road, Woy Woy
38.2km
291 Rooty Hill Road North, Plumpton
38.2km
1950 Camden Valley Way, Edmondson Park
38.3km
1042 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
38.7km
861 Richmond Road, Marsden Park
38.9km
Cnr Hyatts & Jersey Roads, Plumpton
39.0km
4 Lancaster Street, Ingleburn
39.0km
49 Garfield Road East, Riverstone
39.0km
795 Luxford Road (Corner Buckwell Drive), Hassall Grove
39.1km
Lot 6 Luxford Road, Mount Druitt
39.3km
72 Cumberland Road, Ingleburn
39.5km
Shop 173 Corner Carlisle Avenue & Luxford Road, Mt Druitt
40.1km
3/2133 Great Western Highway (Cnr John Hines Ave), Minchinbury
40.7km
Shop 1, 135-137 Popondetta Road, Emerton
41.2km
104 Great Western Highway & Bennett Road, Colyton
42.1km
4 Endeavour & Bennett Roads, St Clair
42.1km
28 - 30 Avoca Drive, Kincumber
42.3km
390 Avoca Drive (Gosford), Green Point
42.4km
Lot 1 Ben Lomond Road, Minto
42.7km
Corner Mamre Road & Wilson Street, St Marys
44.0km
Corner Forrester Road & Christie Street, St Marys
44.1km
142 Windsor Road (Corner Mulgrave Road), McGraths Hill
44.7km
577 Great Western Hwy, Werrington
45.5km
55 Central Coast Highway, Gosford West
45.6km
7 Raby Road, Leppington
45.7km
Dock 1, 620 Terrigal Drive, Erina
45.9km
214 The Entrance Road, Erina
46.0km
12 Hawkesbury Valley Way, Windsor
46.7km
96 Queen & Broughton Streets, Campbelltown
47.1km
Lot 122 Dunheved Road, Werrington
47.2km
735 George Street, Bligh Park
47.5km
71 Blaxland Road, Campbelltown
47.6km
271 Queen Street, Campbelltown
48.0km
127 Great Western Highway (Corner Morley Avenue), Kingswood
48.4km
200 Gilchrist Drive, Campbelltown
49.5km
15-19 Aspen Street, Penrith South
49.6km
67 Woodhouse Drive, Ambarvale
49.9km
31 Goodhugh Street, East Maitland
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New South Wales
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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.