Limassol, Cyprus. Customers who bring a reusable cup to participating cafés on July 18 will receive a free coffee under City Friends Club’s Bring Your Own Cup Day campaign.
The campaign will run from 9am to 11am and aims to reduce single-use waste.
Campaign details
The event is part of Coffee Friends Club, a City Friends Club initiative launched in 2023. Participating cafés normally offer discounts of up to 15 per cent to customers who use their own reusable cups.
During the two-hour Bring Your Own Cup Day campaign, participating cafés will offer coffee free of charge instead.
Prizes for visitors
Organisers have hidden two City Friends Club mascot stickers in each participating café. Visitors who find the stickers will receive prizes including reusable cups, eco tote bags, desserts and other gifts.
Participating cafés
City Friends Club said the campaign will take place at 19 cafés across Limassol, Paphos, Nicosia and Larnaca.
The listed participating cafés in Limassol are Ray Kitchen & Bar Germasogeia, Ray Kitchen & Bar Mesa Geitonia, Nomad Bread & Coffee Germasogeia, Nomad Bread & Coffee Gladstonos, Nomad Bread & Coffee Theklas Lysioti, Stories, Il Parco, Astry, Black Coine, Bleu Coffee, The Cookhouse, The Republic, Parisian Flat, Dune Cafe and Tartufo Gelato.
In Larnaca, the listed cafés are Paul’s Coffee Roasters and Zya Cafe.
More information is available at https://cityfriends.club/coffee_eng.
Waste reduction initiative
According to City Friends Club, the initiative prevented around 25,000 disposable coffee cups from reaching landfill in the first half of 2025, based on data from participating cafés.
City Friends Club said it has carried out street cleaning, community clean-ups and environmental education initiatives since 2021. The organisation said it operates with six trucks and 15 cleaners in key areas of Limassol and has organised monthly clean-ups for volunteers and corporate groups in parks, beaches and other public spaces.
The group said professional cleaners and more than 3,000 volunteers have collected 465,640 kg of waste since 2021.
