The value chain of coffee 2/2
Stages of coffee after it reaches consumers
Once it has been produced and transported, coffee now passes through the preparation and waste management stages. Out-of-home coffee is consumed in cafés, businesses, hotels and other public places with coffee machines. Illy Cafés and Cafés Richard provide training for catering and hotel professionals to raise awareness of the need for sustainable coffee management.
At a local level, Cafés Sati delivers to restaurants in Strasbourg city centre by bicycle instead of van.
Coffee Recycling for businesses and bulk consumers :
For businesses, Cafés Richard offers the 100% recoverable coffee break initiative. This is a collection scheme that organisations sign up to that recycles coffee grounds and provides home compost cardboard cups and tea bags. The collection is carried out by around thirty local partners specialising in bio-waste processing.
Along the same lines, since 2014 Nespresso has been offering professional customers who consume more than 500 capsules per month a free dedicated recycling service. Nespresso has joined forces with 2 partners, La Poste and Paprec, to operate the service throughout France. The L'Or Espresso coffee brand, managed by J.D Preet, also has the same programme for recycling collected professional coffee capsules. The capsules are recycled by the Elise bio-waste company in France, which uses the coffee grounds to make compost to fertilise the soil in Picardy, and the aluminium to make bicycles and kitchen utensils.
Home recycling:
For coffee consumed at home, selective sorting is still the primary option and is now possible with the Nespresso and Nestlé brands. In 2019, the two brands began the Alliance for Aluminium Capsule Recycling with the aim of recycling 100% of aluminium capsules on the French market, enabling more people to throw aluminium capsules in their selective sorting bin. In addition to packaging, there is the creation of compost with coffee grounds, a key compost activator. Coffee grounds can also be used in artisanal mushroom production, as a natural fertiliser in gardening or as a skin scrub. For the home, coffee grounds can also be used to create logs for fireplaces.
Energy-efficient coffee machines are also an option for the home. Senseo has launched a new coffee machine made from 80% recycled plastic and using 42% less energy in use than the old model.
Consumer gestures to reduce the water footprint of coffee would be to use a French press to make an exact quantity of coffee, saving the amount of water used in the process.
Kergig’s reusable coffee filters are also an an option to reduce the use of single use paper filters.
Finally, reusing coffee grounds as natural fertilizer and other domestic uses has cost saving benefits for consumers. Coffee grounds can also be used to make a face scrub.
Adopting the right gestures for all home coffee drinkers remains a key step, making it essential to communicate these gestures. By developing resources, the coffee industry can make sorting and recycling simple.
At a local level, Cafés Sati delivers to restaurants in Strasbourg city centre by bicycle instead of van.
Coffee Recycling for businesses and bulk consumers :
For businesses, Cafés Richard offers the 100% recoverable coffee break initiative. This is a collection scheme that organisations sign up to that recycles coffee grounds and provides home compost cardboard cups and tea bags. The collection is carried out by around thirty local partners specialising in bio-waste processing.
Along the same lines, since 2014 Nespresso has been offering professional customers who consume more than 500 capsules per month a free dedicated recycling service. Nespresso has joined forces with 2 partners, La Poste and Paprec, to operate the service throughout France. The L'Or Espresso coffee brand, managed by J.D Preet, also has the same programme for recycling collected professional coffee capsules. The capsules are recycled by the Elise bio-waste company in France, which uses the coffee grounds to make compost to fertilise the soil in Picardy, and the aluminium to make bicycles and kitchen utensils.
Home recycling:
For coffee consumed at home, selective sorting is still the primary option and is now possible with the Nespresso and Nestlé brands. In 2019, the two brands began the Alliance for Aluminium Capsule Recycling with the aim of recycling 100% of aluminium capsules on the French market, enabling more people to throw aluminium capsules in their selective sorting bin. In addition to packaging, there is the creation of compost with coffee grounds, a key compost activator. Coffee grounds can also be used in artisanal mushroom production, as a natural fertiliser in gardening or as a skin scrub. For the home, coffee grounds can also be used to create logs for fireplaces.
Energy-efficient coffee machines are also an option for the home. Senseo has launched a new coffee machine made from 80% recycled plastic and using 42% less energy in use than the old model.
Consumer gestures to reduce the water footprint of coffee would be to use a French press to make an exact quantity of coffee, saving the amount of water used in the process.
Kergig’s reusable coffee filters are also an an option to reduce the use of single use paper filters.
Finally, reusing coffee grounds as natural fertilizer and other domestic uses has cost saving benefits for consumers. Coffee grounds can also be used to make a face scrub.
Adopting the right gestures for all home coffee drinkers remains a key step, making it essential to communicate these gestures. By developing resources, the coffee industry can make sorting and recycling simple.
