An environmental campaigner is calling for warnings to be placed on takeaway coffee cups in the style of tobacco packaging warnings to reduce the number of coffee cups that end up in landfill.
Campaigner Anna Warren aims to get signatures from 25,000 supporters to her online petition to present it to Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg.
Ms Warren suggests that a warning should be placed on disposable cups, especially cups with a waterproof coating as they cannot be recycled.
Australians use about 2.6 billion disposable coffee cups a year.