The Boomerang Alliance is making 2025 the year of Reuse. Reusable cups, containers and other items have significant benefits compared to single-use items.  They can reduce GHG emissions, water and material use and eliminate unnecessary waste. The switch to reuse will require a big change to our habits so we are starting with cups and containers, primarily used away from home. Away-from-home use usually means that single-use products are thrown away and end up in landfills or are littered.

What we will be campaigning for:

• A binding 30% reuse target for packaging
• A Reuse Strategy included in every government’s plastic reduction policy
• National regulations to require all stadiums and major events to provide reusable cups and containers to patrons
• All cafes and food outlets to also offer reusable cups for takeaway purposes and never provide disposables for dine-in
• All retailers to only provide reusable shopping bags, that have met a reuse standard
• Supermarkets to scale up reuse items in-store and returnable containers for deliveries
• The inclusion of reusable bottles as eligible under State container refund schemes

You can check out our Choosing to Reuse in Australia report (here)