True to my word, see SMH opinion piece, I contacted five large coffee retailers in Australia. Three of them replied to me within a week. 

McDonalds: "We’re currently proud to partner with  KeepCup in our restaurants and are seeing more and more of our customers transition to reusable cups. We will also continue to work with our partners and suppliers to investigate ways to responsibly recycle coffee cups and look forward to sharing more detail on this when we can." mcfeedback@au.mcd.com

Starbucks: "We’ve already committed $10 million this past March to develop a fully recyclable and compostable hot cup, in partnership with Closed Loop Partners, through the NextGen Cup Challenge." And they also informed me that they are now offering customers "a 50 cent discount off their favourite beverage when they bring in their own reusable tumbler, mug or cold cup." customerservice@starbucks.com.au

7-Eleven: Please see the link to the 7-Eleven media page for information on their partnership with  Simply Cups, a recycling facility designed specifically for cups with the plastic lining which can't be recycled elsewhere. They have also produced a reusable cup made out of recycled coffee cups called the rCup, which is available in their stores. There are still many stores however that don't have the recycling available, so we need to keep up the pressure: customerservice@7eleven.com.au

As for Gloria Jeans and Hudsons Coffee, I have not heard from them yet, which is disappointing. Feel free to contact them directly. Gloria Jeans: media@rfg.com.au 

Although there is some good news in regards to the large coffee retailers, we still need legislation in the short term for labelling on single-use coffee cups in the transition to a comprehensive recycling strategy to close the loop.

Please also do your bit by bringing your own cup and asking for a discount for doing so, see responsiblecafes.org. If the coffee shop won't offer one or makes you feel uncomfortable for bringing your own, just go somewhere else. Share this to your circle so we can get to 50,000 signatures and put the pressure on Josh Frydenberg to show some leadership in this area.

Thank you all for your continued support.

Anna