An Exeter-based company is embracing environmental technology to provide聽eco-conscious consumers with sustainable alternatives to plastic and metal coffee pods.
Blue Goose聽Coffee聽is a new range of speciality, single-origin and organic coffees in plastic-free聽coffee聽capsules.聽
Their innovative wood bark聽capsules聽turn into compost or liquid fertilizer within 12 weeks.
The idea was the brainchild of micro-business owners Lex聽Thornely聽and Nick聽Ratsey - they had visited a waste and recycling site and saw the used metal coffee pods piled up ready for incineration, which was when they decided to pursue the eco friendly route.
Their coffee inside the wood bark capsules include Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, organic Peruvian and the 海角视频鈥檚 only Swiss Water Decaf聽capsule, filled with organic聽coffee聽from Honduras.
The new range of聽speciality, single-origin and organic coffees in plastic-free coffee capsules are Compatible with Nespresso庐 original domestic drop-through coffee pod machines (excl. Expert).
A sobering statistic considering a predicted 52 billion non-recyclable plastic coffee pods will be produced globally by the end of next year, despite the world waking up to the plastic crisis.
Sustainably and organically grown in the world鈥檚 most respected coffee growing regions, Blue Goose鈥檚聽ecocoffee pod range has already received national accolades for their trio of coffees.
鈥淲e wanted to prove just how good capsule coffee could and should taste without compromising on our ethical approach to business," Lex said.
"So we naturally selected聽speciality聽grade coffees for which we pay our growers a premium beyond the聽Fairtrade聽Minimum Price鈥.
Lex聽added: 鈥淏y sourcing the highest quality聽speciality聽coffee over commodity-grade coffee, our customers get the very best tasting coffee while our farmers earn greater income to re-invest into their livelihoods, ensuring their families, workers and local communities can thrive long into the future.鈥
Blue Goose Coffee鈥檚 GM-free聽compostable聽coffee pods are also produced using renewable energy and packaged in sustainably sourced, recyclable cardboard printed using vegetable inks.
Further evidence of Blue Goose鈥檚 purpose-driven approach to business is through their donations to chosen charities and projects, according to聽Lex聽Thornely.
He said: 鈥淚n a world where big businesses are only changing their environmental ways due to mounting consumer pressure, we wanted to prove that small businesses really are at the heart of creating positive change, putting people and the planet before profits.
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"This is why we are supporting water and wildlife charities in our origins, in particular the conservation of the Bale Mountain National Park, which is the source of water for 21 million people across Ethiopia and Somalia and home to the endangered breed that inspired our brand, the Abyssinian Blue-Winged Goose.鈥
Blue Goose Coffee is available across the 海角视频 via Amazon, each coffee costs 拢18.00 for 40 biodegradable capsules, with free Amazon Prime next-day delivery available.
