About UYO

UYO.CO.NZ is a not-for-profit, responsible-cafe finder. UYO stands for Use Your Own.

We use the guide, and the associated instagram @uyo.nz, as a tool to help customers, cafes and communities break up with unnecessary single use, while keeping everyone happy (including the accountant). Why? Because single use waste is a menace to our planet's resources, our societies' way of treating each other, and our one home.

We represent cafes who are committed to minimizing their environmental impact by welcoming us to use our own cups and containers, plates, bowls, cutlery, anything, when we take out. Every cafe listed here will pour a brew into any vessel we bring them, and will smile while they do.

We use social media to engage, connect, incite, inform, create and represent the reuse revolution, and the hospitality businesses who are stepping up.

We also work as a philanthropic social enterprise, stepping in to connect folks who can help each other do good, and stepping up to fund local projects and initiatives. We have no ego - we just want to see the world we leave behind to be one that life can thrive in, respecting the rights of all living things to clean air, water and land.

And all profits from the UYO guide are employed in tangible projects that play a part in a chain of events to alleviate suffering and defend the natural world.

Laura Kitty

Captain & Insta

Here to talk anything 24/7 ⭐ Click to TALK GOODNESS and we'll find a way to get shit done.

Marie

Posters & Badges

Marie is a freelance designer and illustrator who does all the web design, colour and image work for UYO ⭐ Except this! ⭐ Click HELP US MARIE to connect with her.

Sarah

Web Geek

Project Coordinator @ Turboweb. Proactive, organiser, music lover, people person, doing loads of behind the scenes UYO stuff for the love of our planet. Talk to us about saving the world. All …

Kate

Words & Media

Kate is a word smith, communicator, YES-woman, and chronic smiler. With two cockatiels on her shoulder and the cutest dog in the world at her feet, she's on a …