Bring Your Own Mug

The average American office worker uses 500 disposable cups a year, or 1.4 per day. BU coffee shops on the Charles River Campus used 1,025,726 paper cups in FY09.  Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.  Help reduce this waste by using a reusable mug or bottle. Starbucks, Campus Convenience, and other local vendors, offer discounts on coffee if you bring your own mug.

The BU community used over 1.2 million single-use paper coffee cups in 2011 alone!

Since 2009, sustainability@BU has provided reusable coffee mugs to community members who sign up to Join The Challenge, a monthly competition to reduce our environmental footprint. Mugs are offered at the annual Comm Ave Fair and Sustainability Festival, both in September to coincide with the monthly challenge to “De-cup Your Decaf”.

Bring a reusable coffee mug to the following campus locations and save 25¢:

Starbucks – 700 Commonwealth Ave
Starbucks – 775 Commonwealth Ave – George Sherman Union
Starbucks – 595 Commonwealth Ave – 2nd Floor SMG
Breadwinners – 595 Commonwealth Ave – 2nd Floor SMG
Dunkin Donuts – 10 Buick Street – Buick Street Market
Einstein’s – 685 Commonwealth Ave – Lower Level, CAS
Rhett’s at Union Court – 775 Commonwealth Ave – George Sherman Union
Rize- 100 Bay State Rd
Law School Café – 765 Commonwealth Ave
Hillel Granby St. Café – 213 Bay State Rd

Dining Services offers .25 discount for all coffee and tea beverages

City Convenience offers any size coffee in your own mug for $1 at all locations:

City Convenience – 700 Commonwealth Ave
City Convenience – 775 Commonwealth Ave – George Sherman Union
City Convenience – 957 Commonwealth Ave
City Convenience – 700 Albany St
City Convenience – 275 Commonwealth Ave

Other locations that offer a discount on/near campus:

Espresso Royale Café
Blue State Coffee