Protecting Platypus

Platypus rely on
Litter Free Rivers

Single use plastic spends just moments in our hands, but a lifetime breaking down in the environment.

We need to create a ripple,
and that’s where YOU come in!

Use our calculator to measure the amazing impact you can have from making a few small changes.

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How many hot drinks do you take away in a week?
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How many drinks do you buy in plastic bottles a week?This can be everything from soft drinks to water
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How many straws do you slurp from on a weekly basis?
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How many take away meals do you have each week?

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Choose to Reuse

The majority of litter comes from items designed to be used just once! Fortunately, there are reusable alternatives to almost every disposable product.

Click the item to find out more

Reusable Coffee Cup

Coffee tastes better in a reusable cup.

Disposable cups appear to be made of paper, but the majority have a thin plastic lining making them unrecyclable. Aussies use 1 billion of these disposable cups every year.

If every Australian used a reusable cup, they would save around 1 billion single-use coffee cups from landfill every year!

Reusable Bottle

Bottle it!

Plastic bottles can take 450 years to break up, and while most are recyclable, currently only 1 in every 5 plastic bottles actually makes it into the recycling stream.

If every Australian chose to use a reusable water bottle they could each save around 129 single-use bottles from landfill every year.

Please dispose of plastic bottles properly, and be sure to utilise the NSW Government Return and Earn collection points to get a refund for all these containers.

Reusable Straw

The last straw.

Australians use 2.7 billion straws a year! Saying no to straws seems like such a simple action, but taking steps like this really do make an enormous difference to our environment.

If every Australian said no to straws or used a stainless steel reusable straw, we would save an average of 2.7 billion single-use plastic straws from landfill every year.

Reusable Container

Make your food NUDE!

Take away containers are 24% of litter volume in NSW. Take away containers and other food packaging such as cling wrap or polystyrene often end up in the ocean, eventually breaking up into smaller and smaller pieces. Meals-on-the-go may be convenient for us, but the rubbish can pose serious threats to marine life and our oceans.

There are lots of ways to reduce take away containers and other packaging:

Make lunch the night before, being prepared means you’re not caught out buying take away food.
Bringing your own reusable container or lunchbox - most take away shops are happy to use yours.
Use a reusable container or beeswax wraps as an alternative to cling wrap for sandwiches and fruit.
Try one “nude food” day per week, and see how easy it really is!

By choosing reusables, every year you could save:

0Takeaway Cups

0Plastic Bottles

0Plastic Straws

0Takeaway Containers

You use these items just once, but they last forever. Every piece of plastic ever created still exists somewhere.