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South Australia coffee cup ban is now here! This is how we can help you...

by Amber B

From the 1st September 2024, South Australia will ban all plastic-lined takeaway coffee cups, plastic lids and plastic clear cold drink cups.

All accepted cups and lids MUST be Certified Compostable (home or commercial) to Australian standards. (AS5810 or AS4736)

What is accepted moving forward:

- Paper/Pulp Certified Home Compostable coffee cups for both hot and cold drinks 

- Paper/Pulp/Bioplastic Certified Commercially Compostable coffee cups for both hot and cold drinks

- Paper/Pulp/Sugarcane lids and Bioplastic lids that are Certified home or commercially compostable

**Unlike WA bans, bioplastic clear cups and lids seem to be accepted in the SA bans. As long as all takeaway items are certified compostable to Australian Standards. 

 

We always recommend choosing Home Compostable products wherever you can as they don't need to be collected and manually processed like commercially compostable products do. 

Look for logos and wordings with AS5810 for Home Compostable and AS4736 for Commercially Compostable. The AS stands for Australian Standard - see logo examples:

Here's a helpful link we found on the South Australian Gov website:
home compostable takeaway disposable designer coffee cup cafe printed hot cup coffee lid bio cup takeaway milkshake coffee cups cold cup cafe aqueous art series certified AS5810
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All accepted takeaway packaging will soon be compostable and it is up to you to help educate your customers on where to dispose of these products. 
NO MORE RECYCLING COFFEE CUPS or LIDS**
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Home compostable coffee cups and lids can either be composted at home or buried in your garden beds to break down naturally. 
All compostable options can also be taken to your local 7eleven service station and repurposed via the SimplyCups collection stations. 
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We hope as more bans like this roll over into other states we are provided with more garden waste bins, compost/food waste bins both in the public or at home but we need local councils to help make this change.
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Our Creative Cafe coffee cups can double as both hot ans cold takeaway beverage cups and are acceptable in the Western Australia and South Australia bans, just add a sugarcane lid or go lid-less!

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