Sisters Coffee Company in the Pearl (1235 NW Marshall St) is a family owned company based out of Sisters, Oregon, and has recently joined our BYOC campaign! The following is an article written by Megan Patterson, Assistant Manager at Sisters Coffee The company has been roasting coffee in Central Oregon since 1989. The Pearl location […]
by Brion Hurley Nossa Familia Coffee opened a new location this week on SE 20th and Division at Seven Corners, and those of you following our coffee cup reduction campaign are going to be super excited about this cafe! They are already known for their sustainability efforts. They are a Certified B Corporation, and they were the first […]
Laura Weiss is packing it in. Or perhaps it’s more appropriate to say she’s packing it out. Weiss is the founder of GO Box, a Portland-based reusable takeout container business. For the past seven years Weiss and her cargo bike full of Go Boxes have been a familiar sight downtown and in central city neighborhoods. […]
By Bonita Davis, RA Board Member AOR’s 40th Annual Sustainable Oregon 2018 Conference in Eugene offered a tour of BRING, a central Oregon-based non-profit dedicated to changing attitudes and behaviors regarding waste. Focusing on consumption, climate change and community resiliency, the program works to provide vision, leadership and tools for living well on the planet we all […]
Thanks to the outreach by one of our top BYOC volunteers Lori Gates, we have now added our 17th coffee shop to the BYOC campaign! Since 1981, Longbottom Coffee and Tea has been delivering the world’s finest coffees to their customers, based out of their Hillsboro location. They are known for their tasty menu for […]
For the 3rd year in a row, we have received a Green Communities Grant award from Rockwell Collins! We will be using the money to replenish the campaign materials we provide to residents and coffee shops as part of our BYOC campaign. 50 grants for a total of $82,500 were awarded in 2018, which brings […]
By Nancy Mogielnicki, Guest Contributor After hearing Capt. Charles Moore (author of Plastic Ocean) talk about the Pacific Garbage Patch and the fact that bottle caps are the most numerous recognizable items in the gyre, I examined my buying habits and realized A.) that I didn’t discriminate between dairy/juice products with plastic caps and those with “old […]
Our Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) campaign is now stretching out into Clackamas County. The first Clackamas County coffee shop to join the campaign is Wind Horse Coffee & Tea in Milwaukie. Wind Horse started participating in the campaign in February 2018. Staff have been in the habit of asking customers if they want their beverage for […]
by Bonita Davis Recycling Advocates was very pleased to welcome new volunteers to the Bring Your Own Cup Campaign (BYOCC) on Saturday, March 10th at New Season’s Market at Seven Corners on SE Division. Coming from throughout the Metro region, twelve responded to the opportunity through the Master Recycling Program, or from a recent BYOCC tabling […]
Join Recycling Advocates on for a quick and fun training session on how to become part of the Bring Your Own Cup Campaign. Be part of the team that visits coffee shops to learn what is being done to reduce waste created by the one-time-use white paper cup, through incentives to bring your own cup and […]
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