Sustainability

We are a zero waste business. To us, this term defines our goal of taking small steps rooted in sustainability. Over the past several years, we’ve taken steps like composting and recycling 90% of all our waste, buying local, and stocking our store with BPI certified versions of all our single use items.  We are excited to announce to you our new next step: retail bags made almost entirely (99%) from plants. We’re calling them our 'Next Best Step Bags', and they make us really happy. IMPROVING COFFEE BAG SUSTAINABILITY Our coffee bags are Biotre 2.0. They are made mostly...

It’s inevitable, coffee has to go in cups. Too often in paper cups. Those cups need lids. Those smudged faces must be wiped clean with paper napkins. When our cargo pockets bulge with croissants and our fanny packs bemoan another scone, we must carry our secret joys in a more conspicuous paper container. Our joys add up and all those gleefully soiled papery and used plastic things become something. A big something. To be exact, it’s 28+ tons of something each and every year at Crema. We checked, and it turns out that’s a rather MASSIVE pile. We wanted to...