ZERO WASTE COFFEE
ZERO WASTE WHOLESALE COFFEE
Since 2018 we have offered wholesale customers the option to accept coffee deliveries in reusable food-grade plastic tubs.
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This has been a big hit for large volume sites, such as The University of Sheffield, thanks to the ease of process and alignments of values. It has also proved popular for retailers offering customers packaging-free products.
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Each easy-to-stack tub is batch coded and sealed, then after customers decant their beans we collect the tubs and sterilise them, ready to be used again. This has saved over 11,000 coffee bags since the strategy was implemented.
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The coffee bags we do use (1kg wholesale and 250g retail) are now made from monoplastic LDPE, which is fully recyclable.
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Please get in touch if you’d like to become a zero waste coffee customer.
COMPLEMENTING THE OFFERING
We generate our own box filler packing where required, using our cardboard shredder, which has negated the use of packing peanuts.
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Our coffee is packed into hessian sacks at origin and we send these to K&H Ellis jute recyclers, where they are shredded and repurposed for products such as carpet underlay.
The GrainPro bags that line the hessian sacks are also reused for our coffee chaff waste and bin liners for our warehouse and for litter picking sessions in local parks, thanks to our customer service manager Lizzie.