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Wolfie Barn Pavement Coffeehouse Boston, Massachusetts One of the most effective measures for us at Pavement Coffeehouse has been to train our baristas to minimize waste. If all of the baristas in a shop are trained to steam only the appro- priate amount of milk and to dose coffee out without wasting a bunch in the knock box, it can really make a huge difference. Most baristas I know have enough respect for the whole supply chain to really work hard at reducing waste after even a little training. Pálmar ór Hlö versson Pallett Kaffikompani Reykjavik, Iceland I charge extra for the paper cup at Pallett—50 Icelandic Krona [about 42 cents]. People are really starting to remember the reusable ones they have in the back of their cupboard. Joseph Wyatt Sea Side Coffee Capitola, California We use dry noodles as stir sticks! Save the trees! Marie Cullinan The Library Coffeehouse Tampa, Florida At my shop, we just started using the new Able Brewing Kone and the disks [for AeroPress]. We also offer the used coffee grounds to our customers if they would like them. All of our newspapers are recycled, courtesy of one of our reg- ular customers. We are a small shop and do what we can to promote sustainability and green practices. Dave and Majell Beach, and Tony Querio Backporch Coffee Roasters Bend, Oregon At Backporch Coffee Roasters we were early in the bottled cold brew movement in an attempt to lessen our waste by reducing our plastic cup use and resanitizing the bottles with water proof labels. We've bottled now for two years with great success and in doing so, have saved hundreds of plastic cup waste (and have made a pretty attractive bottle!). Also, we now donate our GrainPro bags to a local producer who makes bags out of reclaimed materials. Nathan Westwick Wild Goose Coffee Company Redlands, California Nicolle Larkin Brew Craft Coffee Redding, California Some of the ways we try to promote going green include [offering] ceramic mugs instead of plastic, and encour- aging customers to bring in their own cups. We give away the grounds and tea bags for those in need of fertilizer. We also only purchase beans that have been grown in a sustainable way, traded directly with the farmers. In addition to sourcing relation- ship-driven coffee (so that the farmers are taken care of), we have committed (from the very beginning) to donating 10 pounds of food to local food banks for every pound of coffee we sell, whether retail or wholesale. We have made the model localized, so that cafés who purchase their coffee from us give back to their local community. They don't do anything special on their end other than letting us supply their coffee; we handle the donations after a mutually selected food bank is chosen). We're the new kids on the block, and have only been wholesaling for about a year and a half, but already have been able to provide over 150,000 pounds of food to local food banks, just through the sales of coffee!