Bettercup Blog

Those ‘compostable’ cups you keep seeing at festivals, events and markets? Not as compostable as you might think! Many ‘bioplastics’ i.e. compostable single use cups, need industrial scale composters to be able to break down as they are not accepted by many Councils’ food and green waste services.  Compostable plastics can also contaminate recycling systems, […]

The latest report from Upstream makes a bold call: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes need to prioritise reuse over recycling if we want real change in packaging waste. It argues that while recycling has dominated the conversation for decades, true waste reduction comes from designing packaging to be used again and again, not just collected […]

Shifting from single-use to reuse systems, like cups at events or in venues, isn’t just about having the right product. The real challenge is preventing those cups from ending up in bins, going home with people, or getting broken in the crowd- these losses have a huge impact on the financial and environmental viability of […]

The decision to abolish Sustainability Victoria has landed quietly for some, and with a resounding thud for others. For a change of this scale, there has been very little mainstream analysis and almost no serious interrogation of what replaces it. The limited media coverage has focused on job impacts, rather than the longer term consequences […]

There’s a pattern we see constantly in the events and hospitality space, and I think it deserves a name. An event organiser or venue operator knows single-use cups are wasteful, they’ve seen the data, they understand the environmental cost, and many of them genuinely want to do better. But when it comes time to actually […]