Sawyer Café goes Cup-less

After watching stacks and stacks of paper "hot cups" disappearing at the Sawyer café this fall, we have decided to go cup-less. Over 1,100 hundred cups have been used in the past six weeks alone, only half of which were used for café machine produced drinks. That is an awful lot of paper products being used and associated waste being generated. The Williams College Libraries are committed to be more sustainable and going cup-less seems like a logical next step to take.

We ask students and others to use their cups when partaking in the machine generated coffee, tea, or hot chocolate or when using the free hot water.  This new policy took effect on Friday, October 23.

This decision was unanimously endorsed by the Library Committee and is being taken to promote the College's sustainability efforts and to reduce the cost of providing hot beverages.