Reground will recycle 75,000 tonnes of coffee grounds that would otherwise end up in landfill

Eco-friendly coffee giant Single O has joined forces with coffee recycler Reground to collect spent coffee grounds from seven Melbourne cafes and repurpose them to beautify community and home gardens, as well as Melbourne Zoo’s landscaping.

Well-known Melbourne coffee haunts Morning Market, Three Blue Ducks, Occident, WoodsYard, Tokyo Lamington, Sonny Ray, Est 1983, and Arthur St Deli are among the cafes signed up to have their grounds recycled.

Single-use coffee cups are Australia’s second-most littered item (behind plastic water bottles), but the coffee grounds required to make just one latte is equivalent to two kilometres of driving in an ICE vehicle in terms of its carbon footprint.