Halo eyes European expansion with 100% compostable coffee pods: ‘Ours is a totally natural product’ UK start-up Halo Coffee is preparing to expand into continental Europe with its compostable coffee pods that are produced from a by-product of sugar cane processing. The company believes that this offers an important point of difference that will help empower consumers to tackle a pain point in the plastics problem.
Almost 60bn coffee pods are produced annually and the global market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 7.72%. However, only around 29% of coffee pods are currently recycled properly.
“The majority of capsules are not recycled properly due to insufficient and un-easy to reach recycling centres plus a lack of understanding by the consumer of which bin can take which type of capsule without contaminating the stream,” Halo Coffee co-founder David Foster explained, noting that stream contamination is when a recycling stream is compromised.
Halo eyes European expansion with 100% compostable coffee pods: ‘Ours is a totally natural product’ UK start-up Halo Coffee is preparing to expand into continental Europe with its compostable coffee pods that are produced from a by-product of sugar cane processing. The company believes that this offers an important point of difference that will help empower consumers to tackle a pain point in the plastics problem.
Almost 60bn coffee pods are produced annually and the global market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 7.72%. However, only around 29% of coffee pods are currently recycled properly.
“The majority of capsules are not recycled properly due to insufficient and un-easy to reach recycling centres plus a lack of understanding by the consumer of which bin can take which type of capsule without contaminating the stream,” Halo Coffee co-founder David Foster explained, noting that stream contamination is when a recycling stream is compromised.
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Half of us think recycling and reusable mean the same thing, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that 76% of the country are completely clueless about what circular design and economy is, despite the fact it’s billed to be the next, and permanent, trend in green sustainability.
It may seem as though the best way to ensure your food lasts longer is to throw it all into the fridge - but experts have warned coffee should be firmly kept in a cupboard.
Coffee, whether ground or whole beans, should never be stored in the fridge as doing so can ruin the flavour.
The reason is that coffee naturally functions as a deodoriser - so if it s stored along with other groceries that give off an odour, such as fish, meat and cheese, it will easily absorb these smells.
Instead, British experts have recommended it is stored in an airtight container in a cupboard to prevent it from going stale, according to The Telegraph.
As the split between the United Kingdom and the European Union became official on Jan. 1, 2021, the freshly separated UK officially became a member International Coffee Organization.
The UK was formerly grouped in with the rest of the now 27 dues-paying EU countries in the ICO, whose member countries account for 97% of the world’s coffee production and exports, and more than two-thirds of global coffee imports.
That latter number took a dive down from approximately 83 percent when the world’s largest single importing country, the United States, pulled out of the ICO under the Donald Trump administration in 2018.
As the world’s 10th largest coffee importing country, the UK’s immediate accession into the ICO presented some stability in a coffee year that was characterized by widespread price volatility, supply chain disruptions, political instability and a host of other factors affecting the global coffee sector.