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Starbucks Recycles Coffee to Make Milk

May 5, 2014May 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Starbucks is recycling coffee beans to make milk for its coffee. The coffee giant is using Menincon’s fermentation technology that allows the used grounds from Starbucks stores in the Tokyo area to be converted into feed for the diary cows that produce the milk that goes into Starbucks stores’ specialty ... Read more »

McDonald’s Sets CSR Goals

May 1, 2014April 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

McDonald’s has set a goal to source 100 percent of its coffee, palm oil and fish from verified sustainable sources by 2020. The company made this commitment and a host of others as part of its first Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability Framework, announced yesterday. Other goals include: Supporting sustainable ... Read more »

Coffee Grounds Converted to Biomass Pellets

February 14, 2014February 14, 2014 by Bill Opalka

A London-based company, Bio-bean, plans recycle waste coffee grounds and converting them into biofuels. The Guardian reports that architecture student Arthur Kay was looking at closed loop waste-to-energy systems for buildings. When he chose a coffee shop he realized the oil content in coffee and the amount of waste produced, ... Read more »

How Green is Your Coffee?

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A Green Coffee Carbon Footprint Product Category Rule has been published to help the industry calculate greenhouse gas emissions from coffee production. The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform’s Coffee Working Group, in collaboration with the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), developed the Green Coffee CFP-PCR. The Project Steering Group providing the ... Read more »

Green Mountain Coffee to Fund Biochar Farming Project

February 19, 2013February 19, 2013 by Leon Walker

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is helping to fund nonprofit Radio Lifeline’s Black Earth Project, an initiative that uses biochar to help Rwandan farmers mitigate the effects of climate change. Biochar is charcoal produced through the burning of dried biomass in a low- or zero-oxygen environment, a process called pyrolysis. The process ... Read more »

Climate Change Could Kill Off Coffee

November 9, 2012 by Leon Walker

Wild Arabica coffee could be extinct in 70 years due to rising temperatures as a result of climate change, according to research by Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and scientists in Ethiopia. The situation poses a threat to all coffee – one of the world’s basic commodities, according to ... Read more »

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