Recycling Coffee Cups includes:
Disposable coffee cups
Single-use coffee cups
Takeaway coffee cup
Liquid paperboard cups
Biodegradable coffee cups
Compostable coffee cups
Pacific Square Shopping Centre, 737 Anzac Pde, Maroubra Junction
0.3km
755 Anzac Parade, Maroubra Junction
0.3km
1 Meagher Avenue (Corner Malabar Road), Maroubra
1.8km
128 Barker Street, Randwick
2.1km
515 Bunnerong Road, Matraville
2.2km
131 Anzac Parade & Todman Avenue, Kensington
3.5km
110 Anzac Parade & Goodwood Street, Kensington
3.8km
59 Oxford Street, Paddington
6.5km
412 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
6.5km
352 Bourke St, Surry Hills
6.6km
Shop 19, 2 Lee Street, Haymarket
6.9km
Shop 6/242 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills
7.0km
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Rd, (Shop 11, 37 Ultimo Road), Sydney
7.3km
414 Pitt Street, Sydney
7.3km
Suite 16, Ultimo
7.4km
287 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
7.5km
12 - 14 Goulburn Street (Corner Sussex Street), Sydney
7.5km
57 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
7.6km
22 Stanmore Road (Corner Fotheringham Street), Enmore
7.6km
28 Princes Highway, Arncliffe
7.7km
227 Marrickville Road, Marrickville
8.0km
465 Kent Street, Sydney
8.0km
293 West Botany Street (Cnr Bestic Street), Rockdale
8.2km
198 Parramatta Road (Corner Pyrmont Bridge Road), Annandale
8.2km
64 Clarence Street, Sydney
8.7km
99 Railway Street (Corner Frederick Street), Rockdale
9.4km
5 Cumberland Street, The Rocks
9.6km
474 Forest Road, Bexley
10.3km
25 Parramatta Road, Haberfield
10.4km
670 New Canterbury Road (Corner Melford Street), Hurlstone Park
10.5km
178-184 Victoria Road (Corner Moodie Street), Rozelle
10.6km
611-615 Forest Road (Corner Mimosa Street), Bexley
11.0km
476 Rocky Point Road & Sandringham Street, Sans Souci
11.0km
132 Liverpool Road, Ashfield
11.3km
439 Princes Highway (Corner Massey Street), Allawah
11.7km
45 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
12.6km
822 King Georges Road & Joffre St, South Hurstville
12.8km
231-235 Great North Road, Five Dock
12.9km
271A Victoria Road, Drummoyne
12.9km
45 Spit Road, Mosman
13.0km
334-340 Georges River Road, Croydon Park
13.4km
162A Spit Road, Mosman
13.7km
792-794 Canterbury Road Chapel Street, Belmore
13.8km
95 Burwood Road, Burwood
14.1km
Cnr Parramatta & Shaftsbury Rds, Burwood
14.1km
123 Parraweena Road, Taren Point
14.5km
51-53 Kingsway (Corner Gosport Street), Cronulla
14.5km
612 Forest Road, Penshurst
14.6km
222 King Georges Road (Corner Canarys Road), Lakemba
15.0km
14 The Boulevarde, Strathfield
15.0km
192-198 The Kingsway, Woolooware
15.1km
367 The Kingsway (Corner Willarong Road), Caringbah
15.2km
161 Penshurst Road (Corner Hannans Road), Narwee
15.3km
Shop 1 92 Hampden Road, Artarmon
15.3km
477 Pacific Highway, Artarmon
15.4km
575-585 Liverpool Road, Strathfield South
16.0km
30 Bonds Road (Corner Romilly Street), Riverwood
16.5km
197-215 Condamine St, Balgowlah
16.6km
110-112 The Corso, Manly
16.6km
Westfield Shopping Centre; Cnr Anderson, Albert & Spring Streets, Sydney
16.6km
110 Gymea Bay Road, Gymea
17.7km
Corner Pacific Highway & Boundary Street, Roseville
17.8km
542 Princes Highway, Kirrawee
17.9km
529-531 Princes Highway & Bath Road, Kirrawee
17.9km
180 Stacey & Stanley Streets, Bankstown
18.3km
301-305 Hume Highway & Boronia Road, Greenacre
18.3km
Novotel Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Olympic Park
18.6km
13 Halifax St, Macquarie Park
18.8km
238 Pacific Highway, Lindfield
19.0km
693 Old Princes Highway, Sutherland
19.2km
Cnr Condamine St & Pittwater Rd. Dock E and E1 access via ramp off Old Pittwater Road, Brookvale
19.4km
122 Old Town Centre Plaza, Bankstown
19.5km
919 Victoria Road (Corner Hermitage Road), West Ryde
19.6km
326-328 Blaxland Road, Ryde
19.8km
295 Canterbury Road & Mavis Street, Revesby
19.9km
28 Dale Street, Brookvale
19.9km
400 Lane Cove Road, North Ryde
19.9km
494 Pacific Hwy, Killara
20.0km
Lot 1, 519 Hume Highway, Yagoona
20.2km
102 Milperra Road, Revesby
20.9km
Cnr Herring & Waterloo Rds, North Ryde
21.1km
Corner Allison Crescent & Menai Road, Menai
21.8km
940 Pittwater Road & Hawkesbury Avenue, Dee Why
21.8km
48 Surrey Avenue, Georges Hall
22.2km
13 Parramatta Road, Clyde
22.9km
246 Beecroft & Carlingford Roads, Epping
23.7km
154-160 Parramatta Road & Corner Bold Street, Granville
24.2km
159 Mona Vale Road (Corner Putarri Avenue), St Ives
24.2km
272-278 Woodville Road, Guildford
24.4km
243 Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford
24.8km
81 Victoria Road & Macarthur Street, Parramatta
25.1km
1408 Pacific Highway (Corner Duff Street), Turramurra
25.2km
1234 Pittwater Road, Narrabeen
25.2km
44 Hume Highway & Knight Street, Lansvale South
25.5km
262 Church Street, Parramatta
25.7km
295-297 Merrylands Road (Corner Windsor Street), Merrylands
25.9km
1497 Pittwater Road & Gondola Street, Narrabeen
26.5km
1579 Pacific Highway (Corner Redleaf Avenue), Wahroonga
26.9km
340 North Rocks Road, North Rocks
26.9km
102 Heathcote Road, Moorebank
27.3km
552 Pennant Hills Road, West Pennant Hills
27.5km
56 Windsor Road & Northmead Avenue, Northmead
27.6km
137 Windsor Road, Northmead
28.2km
234 Hamilton Road, Fairfield West
28.6km
95 Elizabeth Drive, Liverpool
29.6km
217 Wentworth Avenue (Corner Bungaree Road), Pendle Hill
29.9km
24 Barrenjoey Road (Corner Darley Street East), Mona Vale
30.0km
464 Cabramatta Road West, Mount Pritchard
30.2km
320 Polding Street, Fairfield
30.3km
124 Hoxton Park Road, Lurnea
30.8km
601 Great Western Hwy, Greystanes
31.3km
255 -257 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill
31.3km
352 Elizabeth Drive, Mount Pritchard
31.6km
485 - 487 Smithfield Road, Prairiewood
31.7km
3 Metella Road, Toongabbie
31.7km
140 Edensor & Bibbys Roads, Bonnyrigg
32.4km
307-311 Barrenjoey Road (Corner Seaview Avenue), Newport
32.5km
217-219 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills
32.5km
2355 Camden Valley Way (Corner Beech Road), Casula
32.6km
151 Prospect Hwy & Corner Station Road, Seven Hills
33.1km
176 Fowler Street, Guildford
33.8km
56 Leabons Lane (Corner Blacktown Road), Blacktown East
34.1km
187 Wilson Road, Green Valley
34.3km
4 Lancaster Street, Ingleburn
34.5km
72 Cumberland Road, Ingleburn
34.6km
615-621 Cowpasture Road, Edensor Park
34.8km
354 Corner Flushcombe Road, Blacktown
34.9km
1950 Camden Valley Way, Edmondson Park
35.1km
180 Reservoir Road, Arndell Park
35.2km
965-969 Pacific Highway (Corner Waratah Road), Berowra
35.8km
10 Main Street, Blacktown
35.8km
54 - 56 Windsor Road, Kellyville
36.1km
62 Walters Road, Blacktown
36.4km
Gate A, Ferrers Road, Eastern Creek
37.0km
Lot 1 Ben Lomond Road, Minto
37.0km
363 Vardys Road, Kings Park
37.3km
175 Richmond Road, Blacktown
37.9km
83 Lalor Road & Quakers Hill Parkway, Quakers Hill
39.1km
815 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
39.5km
110 Eastern Road, Bungarribee
39.6km
96 Queen & Broughton Streets, Campbelltown
41.0km
1 Dublin Street, Glendenning
41.2km
Corner Evans & 108 Rooty Hill Roads, Rooty Hill
41.4km
1042 Great Western Highway, Minchinbury
41.5km
7 Raby Road, Leppington
41.6km
71 Blaxland Road, Campbelltown
41.6km
271 Queen Street, Campbelltown
41.8km
291 Rooty Hill Road North, Plumpton
42.0km
Lot 6 Luxford Road, Mount Druitt
42.6km
Cnr Hyatts & Jersey Roads, Plumpton
43.0km
200 Gilchrist Drive, Campbelltown
43.2km
Shop 173 Corner Carlisle Avenue & Luxford Road, Mt Druitt
43.3km
795 Luxford Road (Corner Buckwell Drive), Hassall Grove
43.4km
67 Woodhouse Drive, Ambarvale
43.4km
3/2133 Great Western Highway (Cnr John Hines Ave), Minchinbury
43.4km
861 Richmond Road, Marsden Park
43.7km
Corner Appin Road & Kellerman Drive, St Helens Park
43.9km
4 Endeavour & Bennett Roads, St Clair
44.2km
104 Great Western Highway & Bennett Road, Colyton
44.8km
Shop 1, 135-137 Popondetta Road, Emerton
45.0km
49 Garfield Road East, Riverstone
45.1km
Corner Mamre Road & Wilson Street, St Marys
46.5km
Corner Forrester Road & Christie Street, St Marys
47.5km
577 Great Western Hwy, Werrington
48.2km
31 Goodhugh Street, East Maitland
Provides a pick service for paper, phonebooks and cardboard. Reasonable rates, no contracts, Bins & Frames ideal for areas with limited space. Invoice monthly.
New South Wales
Level 8/11 York St, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney
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New South Wales
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.