Sustainability
Image Credit: Kyle Freund, Fairtrade International ©
All of our Bruno Rossi blends are certified Fairtrade.
At Bruno Rossi, we’re committed to sustainable practices and continually driving initiatives to reach our sustainability goals; zero waste to landfill by 2025 and carbon neutral at our Roastery by 2030.
Our green bean coffee sacks are recycled. Coffee husks are formed into pellets and reused by a variety of small agricultural businesses, and we pay to have some of our husks commercially composted.
Bruno Rossi takeaway cups are commercially compostable and our coffee beans are freshly packed into recyclable soft plastic bags. These can be recycled through the Soft Plastics Scheme and are recycled in NZ by Future Post.
Below are examples of the changes we’re making, both big & small, to become more sustainable. As we have more sustainable wins, we’ll update this page, as every little bit counts.
Our Sustainability Journey
Our innovations manager heard about an amazing company, Ecostock that could help us with our chaff problem. EcoStock are now collecting all the chaff pucks from our roastery and will use the chaff mixed with other ingredients for stock feed
When we built our new roastery, we had the opportunity to install LED lights! So, we did. They use a mere 20% of the energy a standard light bulb consumes…
What do you do with 96,000 Bruno Rossi cups that couldn’t be used? Well, we definitely didn’t want to send them to landfill.
Kudos to Vilash, our resident roastery engineer. He installed a series of motion sensor light switches around our office, so we’re never lighting an empty room.
One of our goals is zero waste to landfill by 2025. So, we’ve come up with a plan for our chaff! What’s chaff? It’s the skin that comes off the raw coffee bean during roasting.
Here’s a resourceful bit of thinking. Dan, a community park ranger from Auckland Council, loves using our old hessian coffee sacks for weed matting in different parks across the city.
Yep, that’s around 34 million soft plastic bags and wrappers turned into Future Posts. The Packaging Forum’s Soft Plastic scheme has published its amazing achievements for the year,
It was a moment to celebrate when our first production run of soft plastics kicked off in October 2020. Now, all coffee packaging produced at our roastery can be recycled through the Soft Plastics collection scheme.
Antica (marketing) and Steph (sales) spent a very chilly Saturday morning conducting grassroots market research at a local soccer park. The goal?
We’re super grateful to be working with good people at Textile Products. These guys take the majority of our used hessian sacks. They shred them and use them as a raw material in many of their products..