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Kitsap County coffee shops are joining a new statewide campaign to encourage residents to bring their own cup to coffee shops. The Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) campaign, recently launched by the Washington State Department of Ecology, invites customers to skip the single-use cups and choose to bring their own.
Many local coffee shops are embracing reuse and supporting the campaign by sporting "Bring Your Own Cup" signage. Coffee shops with these signs welcome you to bring your clean reusable cup for use.
Thank you to all participating Kitsap coffee shops! If you're a coffee shop owner who would like to join the campaign, contact solidwaste@kitsap.gov.
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Join the movement
Take the pledge and commit to bring your reusable cup
Pledge to bring your reusable cup to your local participating coffee shop. By taking the pledge, you'll be entered to win a $25 gift card to your favorite coffee shop on the map! The Washington State Department of Ecology will raffle 50 gift cards a week throughout the month of May.
Find participating coffee shops
Check out the interactive map to locate coffee shops in your neighborhood that welcome your reusable cup. Many even offer discounts and rewards! If your favorite coffee shop accepts personal cups but isn't on the map, submit a request on the campaign webpage.
Prepare your cup and routine
Make sure your reusable cup is clean and know its capacity to make ordering smooth. Keep it near your keys, set reminders, or keep an extra cup in your car or bag so you never forget it. After use, give it a quick rinse to make cleaning it when you get home easier!
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Why BYOC?
To reduce waste and litter
In Washington, 4.4 billion disposable cups are used every year, including 1.7 million cold cups and 2.7 billion hot cups. Plastic and paper cups, lids, and straws are not recyclable in Kitsap County, so all those single-use items end up in the landfill.
Fewer single-use items also mean less of an opportunity for those items to become litter along our roadways and streams.
To conserve natural resources
1.2 million trees are cut down to make paper hot cups and 63 million pounds of plastic is used to make cold cups. And to manufacture these single-use cups, 1.3 billion gallons of water is used. By choosing to reuse, you are helping conserve natural resources for future generations.
To save money
Many coffee shops offer a discount if you bring your own cup! Discounts range, so check with the shop. Small discounts like 25 cents add up - if you purchase coffee five days a week all year, a 25-cent discount will save you about $65!
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Contact information
Kitsap County Public Works, Solid Waste Division, 360.337.5777 or solidwaste@kitsap.gov
Kimberly Pleger, Public Works Communications Manager, 360.337.5777, 360.277.6032 or kpleger@kitsap.gov
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