Taronga offers edible coffee cups for Plastic Free July

For Plastic Free July, Taronga Zoo and Taronga Western Plains Zoo are offering Good Edi cups at their cafes - an opportunity for guests to have their coffee and eat it too.

One billion takeaway cups are sent to landfill every year – and that’s just in Australia. So the Co-Founders of Good Edi, Catherine Hutchins and Aniyo Rahebi, developed the edible coffee up – a tasty and eco-friendly choice when you want your coffee to go. Good Edi won the inaugural HATCH: Taronga Accelerator Program in November 2020, and are now in 50 cafes across five states.

Belinda Fairbrother, Taronga’s Manager of Guest Learning and Community Impact advised “Taronga is really excited to offer our guests the chance to enjoy the amazing Good Edi cups. This cup provides a simple, tasty and environmentally solution to coffee on the go.”

For people who don’t want to eat the cup once they finish their coffee, they can simply place it in the compost bin and it will naturally break down in a few weeks.

It is 12 months since Good Edi sent out their first batch of cups to cafes, and in that time have they have prevented 80,000 single-use cups from entering landfill.

Good Edi Co-Founder Catherine Hutchins shared “we are so proud to reach this amazing milestone, and we are excited for the cups to be available at Taronga. We have some exciting things in the pipeline for Good Edi this year, so watch this space.”

Taronga is committed to securing a shared future for wildlife and people, and understand that innovation and collaboration are more important than ever to drive new approaches to secure the future of our planet. The HATCH Program exists to inspire, support and launch innovative ideas by the community that address key environmental and conservation challenges. To date the program has supported 11 brilliant sustainability and conservation-focused initiatives and awarded more than $130,000 in equity free grants and seed funding.

Find out more about Good Edi. 

Find out more about Taronga's HATCH program.      

Images Credit: Taronga