For here or to go?

“For here or to go?” That one simple question kept a whopping 12,363 disposable coffee cups out of our local landfill last month. At the start of June, Boise-based sustainability consultancy HMK Impact launched the For Here Campaign. It was a month-long initiative to reduce single-use coffee cup waste in local coffee shops. The idea was simple: when customers ordered coffee, baristas would ask, “for here or to go?” If customers stayed in the shop, they’d get their coffee in a real mug. It...