we have a fully compostable coffee program!

This means, everything from the cup to the lid to the straws and what's inside the cup...can be fully composted and turned back into nutrient rich compost for the planet! Here's a full list of our products (and the exceptions) that are certified compostable!

Compostable items: 

hot cups
hot lids 
iced cups
iced lids
coffee sleeves
drink carriers
straws
straw wrappers 
stir sticks 
napkins
pastry paper
merchandise paper bags
left over drinks or garnishes
current single origin 12oz coffee bag (BiotrE)
cardboard boxes for online orders

Non compostable items:

aluminum water bottles (recycle only)
branded Merchandise (recycle, donate or thrift)
retail bean coffee bags unless noted Biotre on bottom of bag
tshirt mailers for online orders

If you have any questions about this list, please email us at adventure@thewildwaycoffee.com

How to Compost these approved products 

Option 1: Grab yourself a @compostcollectivekc bin swap for $10 ($6 for refill)  on your next visit to our Brookside Day! (56th & Brookside Blvd on Sundays from 8:30am-2pm). Take it home, fill up with food scraps, paper towels, pizza boxes, and Wild Way compostable cups. Bring back to us and swap it for a fresh bucket for $6 any Sunday. Repeat and see your waste reduced! See here for more info from Compost Collective. 

Option 2: Have Compost Collective come to your house for weekly or biweekly pickups! Check their website here to see if your house is in their pickup zone! Add our products, food scraps, meat products, dairy, pizza boxes, paper products and more. Watch your trash get cut down significantly as you renew your waste thru composting!

Option 3: Bring back to us and throw them away in our compost bins by the Camper and we'll compost them for you through our commercial partner KC Can Compost. It's easy! Just keep a box in your car or house and place rinsed Wild Way cups inside. Empty full boxes at the Camper on your next visit! *very important to only place Wild Way cups in this box. Plastic cups (PET) are not compostable even though they look the exact same. 

Option 4: BYOMug and we'll make your beverage in your fave travelers mug or reusable jar. One of Jon and my's fave ways to drink coffee to-go is in glass jars we recycle from old glass pasta or salsa jars that are approx 12-16oz. Great way to reuse perfectly happy glass jars that get new life!

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Other wildly earth-friendly things we do

Here are some other ways we are taking steps to keep our business away from negative waste and steering it in the direction of positive healing for our planet.

house wild way blend made with biodynamic & organic certified beans

milk bottles are in glass jars from a local dairy farm

all half gallon bulk orders made in glass jars w/ buy back program

good ole fashioned recycling

using recycled paper on all promotional printing 

shopping & sourcing locally for syrup ingredients

reusable towels washed with earth friendly detergent

reusable pastry gloves to cut down on plastic single use gloves

branded t-shirts made up of recycled water bottles

Staff trainings and education efforts on composting and environmental justice. Fave podcast rec. here

oat milk sourced from carbon neutral company, minor figures

community garden for herbs in sauces and garnishes

plantssssss. lots of them.