BRING YOUR OWN CUP
Every year, 1.6 billion single-use coffee cups go to landfill in Canada. We’d like ours to be zero.
Help Nomad get
to zero waste.
Since opening our first location on Bewicke in 2022, Nomad has never used single-use cups. Reducing waste has been at the heart of what we do from day one.
Through our Bring Your Own Cup (BYOC) program, we invite everyone to be part of that commitment. Bring your own reusable cup, rinse it at our customer cup station, or borrow one of our 3D-printed clay cups. Every cup reused means less waste and a more sustainable way to enjoy coffee.
Together, small changes to our daily coffee ritual add up to a meaningful difference.
SEE HOW BYOC WORKS
SINGLE-USE CUPS KEPT FROM LANDFILL SINCE 2022
Updated October 20, 2026 · counted by the Nomad Cup Tracker across our cafés
WHAT IT ADDS UP TO
What 342,159 cups have spared the planet
Cups saved multiplied by per-cup values for a 12oz paper cup with polystyrene lid, from published life-cycle studies. * marks an estimate.
CARBON
About 144,914 km of driving a car. 72 g for every cup and lid.
WATER
About 24,806 minutes in the shower. 0.58 L goes into making each paper cup.
PLASTIC
As much as 313,646 water bottles.
LANDFILL WASTE
Roughly 11 g for every cup and lid.
ENERGY*
What it would take to make and ship them.
TREES*
One tree’s worth of pulp per 2,424 cups.
METHODOLOGY & SOURCES
Carbon — 12oz paper cup 60.9 g + PS lid 11 g CO₂e. Intertek LCA (Frugalpac, 2022) + PS industry average.
Water — 0.58 L per cup. Intertek LCA (Frugalpac, 2022).
Energy — 0.56 Wh per cup, manufacture and transport. Huhtamaki / VTT LCA (2019).
Plastic — ~11 g per PE-coated cup + lid. Intertek LCA (Frugalpac, 2022).
Trees — 6.6M trees for 16B cups, US 2006 industry data (Frugalpac, 2022).
Waste — Cup ~9 g (Intertek LCA) + lid ~2 g (industry average).
What could your cup save?
How many takeaway coffees do you have in a week?
WHY BYOC
“Paper” cups are plastic cups.
Almost every disposable coffee cup is lined with plastic so it won’t leak.
That lining is hard to separate from the paper, so most cups end up in landfill, where the plastic slowly breaks down into microplastics in our soil and water. A reusable cup skips all of it.
91% of all plastic ever made has never been recycled.Geyer, Jambeck & Law, Science Advances (2017)
How BYOC
works
- i.
Bring any reusable cup
Mugs, tumblers, jars. Any size, any brand.
- ii.
Rinse it at our cup station
Give your cup a quick rinse at our self-serve station before you hand it to our team.
- iii.
Earn 10 carbon points
Every drink in your own cup earns 10 Carbon Reward points. Just register with your phone number at the counter.
JOIN CARBON REWARD No single-use cups. Ever. We haven’t used a single disposable cup since opening in 2022.
FORGOT YOUR CUP?
Nomad Rental
Clay Cup
Borrow one of our clay cups with a $3 deposit. Bring it back and we’ll refund it in full.
Each cup is 3D-printed from just three natural ingredients: clay, water and salt. No plastic, no lining, nothing to throw away.
Through Nomad's Carbon Reward Program, each reusable cup earns points while helping reduce single-use waste. Track your positive impact, collect rewards, and be part of a growing movement toward a more sustainable coffee culture.
BYOC Carbon Reward Program
