This is Fake News. Please know that there is NO legislation in Australia preventing you from bringing a #BYOcup or food container for #TrashlessTakeaway. It is the policy of the individual business & their ethos. Find a business that agrees with yr values & see our thread on BYO
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So if that’s not enough to convince you why you should bring your cup and food containers for takeaway, I don’t know what will!
It’s time to take our plastic waste problem seriously, people.
Happy to take questions… please share and retweet to help normalise #BYO
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FAKE NEWS ALERT
For the record there is NO FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION in Aus preventing you from BYO’ing your own coffee cup or food container to a business.
It is not unhygienic. It is not illegal. Given our massive waste problem, it is both moral and sensible to do so.
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And microplastics - degraded bits of plastic under 5mm - are everywhere… in our waterways, bottled and tap water, salt, seafood, beer, even agriculture via fertilisers. Marine life and aquatic birds are eating it. We’re consuming it. The oceans are riddled with it.
@Ellen28900@altimetr@craigreucassel Ellen, there is no reason not to use a reusable cup, unless you are either a) completely ignorant to the waste problem, which we’ve just rectified for you, or b) simply do nit GAF about the environmental and human health impacts for us and future generations.
@island_phone@altimetr@craigreucassel No, it doesn’t. There is no legislation against using keep cups in food safety legislation anywhere. And for those in the back row that missed it, if you don’t believe that, you can very simply do a contactless pour.
And then handle everyone’s grotty money…
@Loresey @Ellen28900 Entirely unnecessary, but removes the hurdle for those that are focussed on unhygienic assumptions. I honestly believe some people just aren’t yet aware of the extent of the #PlasticPollution problem and the affect on our health and the planet.
@Ellen28900@altimetr@craigreucassel No, they can make it in a dine-in mug or other vessel and pour it into the keep cup. Or the customer can. Check out @RespCafes , I’m sure it will open your eyes. Be enlightened for the sake of the future generations that need a healthy planet.