Coffee Joe says to look around in your kitchen. How many items come in boxes, bags, plastic, Styrofoam, cans, or bottles? Now imagine the creativity involved in their production. However, as the sheer volume of packaging has skyrocketed recently, CJ thinks it should be mandatory for the manufacturers to make them as sustainable, eco-friendly, and biodegradable as possible.
kitchen waste = landfill 
Coffee Joe intones the mantra of reduce, reuse, and recycle. As a responsible coffee company, we promote the use of our compostable bags, reuse the hemp bags the green beans come in, and because the other odds and ends of packaging are only a viable option for recycling if they are bundled together in large lots, we have it picked up monthly. We are doing our part as much as possible.
The global steps to sustaining and managing waste products should be as follows:
- Prevention – Packaging only for loss or damage, not for aesthetic reasons.
- Minimization – Reduce packaging: lower costs, less space, less in a landfill.
- Reuse – Always should be a priority for everyone to consider.
- Recycling – Old into new, esp. packages of steel, aluminium, paper or plastic.
- Energy recovery—Waste-to-energy makes use of heat from packaging pieces.
- Disposal—burning and allowing marked zones for special waste in a landfill.
CJ loves numbered lists, they organize and make everything logical. Take these points to heart. If packaging is here to stay, let’s make sure it stays in the right place. You can read our guest blog at www.myzerowaste.com. An international site, it is a check valve for what is going on in the world of waste.
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Coffee Joe Says: “We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.” ~William Osler~
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