A new partnership will aim to reduce single use coffee cup waste within the Wollongong LGA.
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The Green Caffeen project launched in Kiama last year, and is being expanded.
The swap-and-go system, founded by Damien Clarke and Martin Brooks, allows coffee drinkers to use a reusable cup, bring the dirty cup back into participating cafes, and walk out with coffee in a clean green cup.
On Monday, Wollongong City Council and Green Caffeen pledged to reduce single use coffee cup waste.
“The partnership is aiming to have 80 per cent of all cafes located within the Wollongong LGA working together to provide coffee drinkers with an accessible, convenient way to consume their daily coffee other than with a single use cup," Kiama MP Gareth Ward said.
Mr Brooks said that being Illawarra residents, "we live and breathe the coastal lifestyle, but unfortunately this is where single use plastic pollution is most visible".
"We congratulate Wollongong council for seeing the value that Green Caffeen can bring to the coffee drinkers and the cafe community of Wollongong and the Illawarra,” he said.
Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery commended Green Caffeen for efforts in diverting the huge number of single-use, disposable coffee cups which currently go straight into landfill.
