Switch to a re-usable bottle, cup and cutlery when you're on the go

Why this pledge is so important

Our throw-away culture is having a detrimental impact on our planet. In Australia, we consume almost 2 million tonnes of plastic a year, 88.5% of it isn't recycled.

Cups 

• 600 billion disposable coffee cups are produced worldwide every year. 
• 99.75% of disposable coffee cups are not recycled (they have a plastic film inside which means most end up in landfill). 
• Aussies consume more than 100,000 cups of coffee every hour. 
• 60,000kgs of waste from cups goes to landfill every year from Australia alone. 
• If you have your coffee in a takeaway cup every day, you’re wasting over 700 single use items, just from your morning caffeine fix. 

Bottles

• Over 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute around the world.
• Recycling plastic bottles normally results in  ‘down-cycling’ the material into products that can’t be easily recycled again.  
• On average, we use 150 plastic water bottles per person a year, that’s 9kg of plastic. 

Cutlery 

• 40,000,000,000 plastic forks, spoons, and knives are used and thrown away each year. 
• It takes centuries for plastic cutlery to break down. 
• Cutlery is among plastic items that are “most deadly” to sea turtles, birds, and mammals.

3 tips to switch to reusables 

1. Get a keep cup and reusable water bottle to take wherever you go. We’ve got some PFTP cups and bottles, send us a message at @pledgefortheplanet on instagram to get your hands on them. 
2. Find thousands of water refill stations all over the world, download the Refill App to find out where to fill your bottle on the go. 
3. Grab some cutlery from home and keep it in a cloth bag.