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The 5 Secrets About Reusable Cups Successful Cafes Don’t Want You To Know
Shhh! Don't tell, but there are a few secrets successful cafes are keeping under wraps about reusable cups. In Australia where sustainability is becoming a bigger priority than ever, these secrets could be the key to attracting new customers and boosting your bottom...
Can Tetra Paks Be Recycled in Australia?
Australia has long been a champion of environmental initiatives, but one area where we have ongoing struggles is recycling and more specifically, the recycling of tetra paks – those much loved, super useful, multi-layered cartons used for beverages like milk and juice...
Are Plastic Milk Bottles Recyclable?
Most people and cafes buy dairy milk in plastic bottles, and some alternative milks and many juices use them too - but are plastic milk bottles recyclable? Plastic milk bottles are made from a rigid form of a plastic called HDPE, High Density Polyethelene. It is very...
The National Sword Policy: How Australia Lost Its Recycling
The National Sword PolicyThe National Sword policy, introduced by China in 2018, marked a turning point for global recycling efforts. For decades, China had been the world's largest importer of recyclable materials, processing a significant share of waste paper,...
Single-Use Plastic Bans in 2025: SA & WA
September is here and that means there are new single-use plastic bans! If you want to find out what that means for your cafe, we’ve summarised everything you need to know about the bans. If you do not comply, fines cost up to $5000 per offence in WA, and up to...
How To Avoid Single Use Plastic In Cafes 2025
There is nothing worse than sitting to dine in and having a takeaway cup delivered to your table. Whether it’s plastic lined paper, compostable, or totally plastic for iced drinks, if you were trying to avoid single use plastic, it can leave a bitter taste before...
Spilling the Beans with bRU Coffee Bondi
Intro-brew-sing… bRU Coffee Bondi! If you’ve been to Bondi recently, you may have spied a bustling hole in the wall, with surfers, families and four-legged friends alike gathered around doing the Saturday quiz together. Chances are you’ve stumbled upon one of our...
Can Reusable Water Bottles Be Recycled in Australia in 2025?
Whether it’s from a work conference, sporting event, or o-week at uni, most of us have a reusable water bottle of some kind sitting untouched in the back of our kitchen cupboards. One spring clean later and you’re left with an assortment of reusable remnants that,...
Why Haven’t You Heard Of PFAS?
The intimate relationship you’re in with highly persistent and dangerous ‘forever chemicals’If you’re at all interested in climate change, plastic pollution, or general sustainability, I’m sure you watched ABC's War On Waste 3, which aired earlier this year. One of...
In the Media
BYOFridays: Now Streaming in Queensland
BYOFridays is now reaching 81,686 people per day through 5 digital billboards across Queensland with the help of Stream Outdoor! Thats a whole lot of keen beans! We are very excited here at Responsible Cafes because our BYOFriday campaign is now streaming across...
RC Team on Tour! Our South Australia Getaway
Our new Responsible Cafes team has spent the better part of six months working remotely from across Australia- from Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia to New South Wales! In May, we FINALLY got to meet together in person on our Responsible Cafes getaway...
RC Wins Highly Commended in WasteSorted Awards!
We are very excited to announce that Responsible Cafes was recently awarded Highly Commended in the 2022 WasteSorted awards in the Community Waste Award category! The WasteSorted awards are initiated by the Waste Authority WA and Government of Western Australia...
A Responsible Cafes Special Screening: Regenerating Australia
ONLINE EVENTGet your popcorn ready keen beans because Responsible Cafes is hosting a special donation-based screening of the new short film documentary Regenerating Australia. From the comfort on your own sofa, join us for the screening on the 7th of June 2022 from...
What’s Going on with the Price Increase of Coffee in Australia?
Has anyone else been inundated with coffee doomsday posts lately? Us too. The price of coffee in Australia is on the rise- here's what you need to know. As if the rising price of petrol wasn’t enough, now we’re hearing about one of Australia’s favourite beverages...
BYOC Meets RC
Hello keen beans - we are BYO Containers, here to help people all across Australia make the shift from single-use to reuse. We strive to normalise, promote and help both customers and businesses to say yes to reusing, refilling and BYO containers and to make it easier...
It’s Time to Step Up to Clean Up, Keen Beans!
Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 6th March 2022
Thank God it’s BYOFriday!
Introducing Responsible Cafes’ newest campaign- Bring Your Own Fridays!
Leaching Microplastics in Your Coffee
Our biggest fears have been confirmed. The data is in. When hot water is poured into a plastic lined cup… what do you think happens to the contents of your super smooth and delicious latte? In a recent study by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur researchers set...
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Campaigns
Stronger Together Cafe Summit
Imagine a community where the local café is a model of responsible business practice, a champion for reducing their environmental impact, with great tasting coffee, nourishing menu options as well as a source of meaningful customer engagement and connection....
Sustainable takeaway and delivery packaging
Sustainable takeaway/delivery packaging (and tips to reduce costs) We understand that cafes have bigger issues to navigate now than choosing sustainable packaging but we have found this hand guide to help you with the overload of information out there about...
Top tips for tips to help you adapt your cafe operations during Covid-19 health crisis
What a terribly challenging time this must be for your business and employees right now, with doors closed to the public and customers only being able to order takeaway. For some of you this is a new way of doing business and we want to try and help by sharing what...
Trash 4 Treasure
Trash for Treasure was a campaign we ran to accompany Plastic Free July. The idea was simple. Ask people to pick up a bucket of trash in exchange for a free coffee.
War on Waste Screening
To celebrate the second amazing War on Waste series, we hosted a last minute get together at Bondi’s Bucket List bar where we screened the last episode of War on Waste and held a panel discussion…
Community Engagement
Community engagement is a large part of Responsible Cafes work. One of our brilliant volunteers and his son created a large life size cup for us to use at community events to highlight the issue (thanks Sjirk!) and it has toured all around NSW…
Cafes That Are Killing It!
Cafes That Are Killing It – The Merri Cafe @ CERES
We are back again with another addition to our ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ series! This week the focus is on the Merri Cafe at CERES. For some context, CERES is an environmental education centre, community garden, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread...
CAFES THAT ARE KILLING IT – CAT & COW
Wow! Our list of ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ is certainly growing. We are so humbled to connect and work with such incredible businesses. Cat & Cow Coffee in Randwick, Sydney is a gold-bean cafe according to the Responsible Cafes rating system - an...
Cafes That Are Killing It: Eeny Meeny cafe
For this instalment of our Cafes That Are Killing It series, we are heading back to Melbourne to visit Eeny Meeny cafe in Frankston. Here we spoke to Chef Robbie Wright about what makes the Eeny Meeny cafe an inspiring, responsible and downright delicious place...
Cafes That Are Killing It: home.one cafe – SOCIETY MELBOURNE
Welcome back! Our ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ series is now onto its fourth edition. This time, the spotlight on Brunswick-based social enterprise cafe home.one! This micro-cafe is one of four social enterprises that makes up the Society Melbourne family - an...
Cafes That Are Killing It – Moon Rabbit Cafe
Welcome to the second instalment of the ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ blog series! This week, we are shining the spotlight on an incredible Melbourne-based environmentally innovative social enterprise - the Moon Rabbit Cafe. Of course, the incredible Moon Rabbit...
Cafes That Are Killing It – Republic Bakery
Welcome to the ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ blog series! Up first, we are spotlighting the iconic Republic Bakery in Bondi and its incredible owner Muz. Muz met with the Responsible Cafes team to share his wisdom on running a successful environmental and socially...
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