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A key to our success lies in our collaborative approach across jurisdictions, involving the entire supply chain, from manufacturers to suppliers.

Our Plastic Free Places program is about directly advising those who supply single-use plastics towards avoiding, reducing, reusing or switching to better alternatives. The Plastic Free Places is a hands-on behaviour change program that works directly with food retailers, events, markets and ‘controlled environments’ such as offices, foodcourts, public institutions and stadiums to reduce single-use plastics.

We assist food providers in understanding and adhering to government plastic regulations, avoiding problem plastic, and transitioning to more reusable packaging.

A key to our success is in our collaborative approach across the whole supply chain, including manufacturers and suppliers.

Our Impact

We work in communities across Australia. Below is the combined impact of all of our programs as at October 31, 2025.

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Business Members

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Plastic Free Champions*

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Items of plastic eliminated

*Plastic Free Champions are members that have eliminated all of our key plastic items (straws, coffee cups & lids, takeaway containers & lids, food ware (cutlery, plates, cups etc), water bottles & bags).

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CASE STUDIES

Botanical Bazaar: challenging the status quo

Championing reuse and sparking a change in their visitors’ lives that continues beyond the festival.

Unley Circular Champions Pilot

In 2024, a group of businesses in Adelaide’s Unley Road came together to trial a range of reusable systems.

AgriCULTURED: the festival that reuses everything

“The aim to get to a circular economy is really important in our current climate.”

George Street Festival: a sustainability success

“My advice would be start small and just give it a go. The result will be very, very pleasing.”

Sonder’s secret to happy customers: reusable cups

“With the cost of living it means a lot to people to save where they can.”

From waste to reuse: the Agrarian Kitchen’s story

“The thing that surprised me about switching to reusable is how quickly it becomes normal.”

Kings Park: aspiring to reduce single-use plastic

“We want to help our events to really reduce waste, reduce the amount of plastics.”

Tiny Coffee: big impact

“We started with eight mugs, and now if it’s a busy summer day we can restock that and go through quite a lot.”

Pressed Earth: fresh juice, zero waste

“We get so much more value from them by being able to reuse them again and again.”

Sustainability at Stábla: a better way to serve coffee

“Customers love it. They love watching it and it’s always a conversation starter.”

Perth Upmarket: bring back the keep cup

“My goal would be that we become an event where we generate vey little to zero landfill waste.”

My Grandma Ben: 1,000 milk bottles in six months

“Our customers love that we’ve got a milk tap and we’re really proud to help them reduce their waste as well.”

Morning Glory: 'no single-use cup day' success.

“We had so many more people come in because of what we were doing. It really put us on the map as a sustainable cafe.”

Walk, sip and save: reducing waste in the park

“People feel good about using a reusable cup, they get a discount and that cup is not going into landfill.”

Sweet sustainability: ditching single-use cups

“Everyone says how beautiful the mugs are and how nice they are to drink from.”

RAC Arena: paving the way to a greener future

“It’s easy to grab onto excuses as to why it can’t be done, but it’s worth it and it’s the right thing to do.”

Hanks Corner: customers support sustainable culture

“We always offer for our regulars to take a cup, plate, cutlery, there are a lot of mugs that go out and come back in.”

Red Gum BBQ: Australia's First B-Corp Restaurant

“What a win if you can create a process that is better for the planet, better for your community, better for customers and saves money. Awesome.”

Common Folk & Homeground

“We always want to have an impact, taking care of the space we operate in which is Mother Earth, so we ask ourselves “what can we do to be more sustainable.”

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Together we can create a better future. 

Plastic Pollution
Container Refund Schemes
Choose to Reuse
Plastic Free Places
Cut The Wrap

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