8. Carrying my own coffee cup and ditching the disposables. Even though they look pretty recyclable, almost all “paper” coffee cups from coffee shops are in fact plastic coated and take 20 years+ to break down in landfill, where they release all the nasties from the plastic into the ground. And while we’re on the subject of coffee – step away from the Coffee Pods!! 200 million of the things wind up in landfill every year in the UK, and Australia chucks them away at a rate of 3 million per day!! The City of Hamburg in Germany has banned them because they are so bad for the environment. Go City of Hamburg! You do not need to inflict an extra piece of non-recyclable plastic on the world each time you have a coffee. They are pointless, your life is not better because of them. Get a caffettiere or a mocha.