Here are some of the things the Coffee Hound does to reduce, recycle and reuse:

A few years ago, some employees took it upon themselves to begin recycling the plastic containers used at the Coffee Hound locations. Now, we recycle all milk containers, syrup bottles, boxes, used java jackets, used plastic cups and newspapers at both the Davenport and Bettendorf locations.

The boxes in which our flavored syrup bottles are delivered are saved, and given back to Country Club Coffee, where they reuse them as long as possible.

To encourage reuse of java jackets, we retired our original stamp cards in favor of a combination stamp card/java jacket. Customers receive a stamp on the back of their jacket for each coffee, tea, latte, frappe or smoothie purchased. After nine stamps, the customer gets a free drink, and a new jacket; the used java jacket is recycled.

Used coffee grounds are saved, and offered for free to gardeners.

All lightbulbs are being replaced with compact florescent bulbs as needed.