If you use a keep cup or sit down for your morning coffee, take a bow. Individually, cafes and restaurants are increasingly looking to sustainable options for coffee cups. But on Aotea Great Barrier island, they’ve gone one step further. The whole island is on a drive to be free of single-use cups, with many of the island’s hospitality providers and locals getting on board.

On Great Barrier, you sit down and drink it, borrow a mug (donated often from someone down the road) or bring your keep cup. Addressing its waste is particularly important for Aotea because it has to ship away all the waste it can’t compost.

TIA is pleased to have been involved through Tātaki Auckland Unlimited’s sustainability programme, the Taurikura Initiative, which works with island businesses on how to be more sustainable.

Ka pai, Aotea!