Eco Café

We were excited to meet with Toby from The Boomerang Alliance and are inspired by the work he is doing to create a movement towards plastic free cafés and restaurants.

We have been committed to ecofriendly principle since the day we opened, using biodegradable and compostable products wherever possible and dramatically minimising single-use plastics in our café. We are excited to be featured on The Project in September 2019 as a Townsville community café embracing the eco café principles.

Some of the many eco initiatives we use are:

• Compostable, wooden cutlery (not single use plastic);
• Biodegradable paper or stainless steel straws (not single use plastic);
• Biodegradable, plant based take away cups (not single use plastic);
• We stamp our paper cups with our brand instead of using stickers which contain plastic products;
• Use of Huskee reusable cups;
• Use of paper wraps for sandwiches (not single use cling wrap);
• Low mileage milk – sourced locally;
• Low mileage coffee – local roaster;
• Coffee grounds are composted as well as reused as body scrub;
• Compost food waste at the local school’s worm farm;
• We participate in “Lids for Kids” to recycle plastic lids that can’t be part of general recycling;
• We participate in “Cash for Cans” recycling;
• We are vigilant in separating our waste and recycling or composting to reduce our footprint;
• We make our own Kombucha, Lavender Lemonade and other products. We decant this into reusable cups to minimise packaging.
• We provide chilled water for customers to decant into reusable cups to minimise purchasing plastic bottles.