LUSTY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY!

LUSTY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY!

✦ If one thing the COVID-19 pandemic and all its ensuing restrictions has arguably taught us it is to live a simpler life.

We have learned to do less, spend less, and waste less. It has unquestionably left many people realising that a more sustainable lifestyle is very much attainable and needn’t be painful.

When we are then constantly reminded of the state of planet Earth and the issues facing the environment through global warming and climate change, the option to become more sustainable makes even more sense. The pandemic has left many of us reevaluating many things with the health of our planet very much at the top of the list of priorities.

Sustainability is absolutely becoming a more popular way of life, something that also extends to the workplace. An increasing number of businesses large and small are centering themselves around a robust approach to social and environmental sustainability practices.

Locally we have met the likes of Grow Sustainable Living at Toms Creek, My Blue Tea, Dinki Co and Tiny Away, all strong advocates of sustainability.

The latest Aussie made small business passionate about flying the sustainable flag we caught up with is Lusty Solutions.

✧ To help you reduce your impact on the environment, we ensure that your products don’t go to landfill at the end of life. We will take back your product at the end of their life and turn them into a new product.

- Lusty Solutions

➸ Uppercup is designed to keep your coffee or tea hot and your fingers cool!

Led by Felicity Ford and Claudine Fessey, Lusty Solutions specialise in reusable coffee cups and filter water bottles. Their Uppercup and 321 Water products are Australian made, B-Corp certified. The business aims to be as sustainable and ethical as possible and, as such, choose to operate and manufacture all within a 25km radius in Melbourne.

Did you know an ordinary disposable coffee cup takes 30 years to decompose?

Uppercup was designed by baristas for people who love coffee with the conical bottom ensuring you can have a perfectly poured coffee every time. Uppercup also has a clever double-wall design to keep your coffee or tea hot and your fingers cool!

321 Water is a beautifully designed water bottle with a unique patented filter tree plunger mechanism. The 321 Water Bottle is the only one of its kind and filters via a French press action. The filter is made of activated carbon, a natural, highly porous filtering material that is made from organic materials such as coconut shells to high temperatures and steam.

➸ The 321 Water Bottle is the only one of its kind that filters via a French press action.

The company also provides a customised Swap Cup and Container program which allows organisations to meet CSR requirements. The system helps to remove all nonreusables from the workplace and implement a full suite of reusable and sustainable Uppercups.

Zero waste

As a certified B-Corporation, Lusty Solutions are committed to being a Zero Waste business. They can recycle your old Uppercups at the end of life, thereby closing the loop and enabling the preservation of our environment and reducing the pressure on recycling.

We aim for all of our products to be circular by design,” their website states. “To help you reduce your impact on the environment, we ensure that your products don’t go to landfill at the end of life. We will take back your product at the end of their life and turn them into a new product.

By choosing their products, you are making a substantial contribution to eradicating single-use products while supporting Australian small businesses and jobs.

Innovative Reusable Product Solutions. Get in touch to find out more:

(03) 8362 3781 hello@lustysolutions.com www.lustysolutions.com

1-13 Kalimna Avenue, Mulgrave VIC 3170, Australia

www.uppercup.com www.321water.com