Our Sustainability Stories
Our coffee chaff solution.
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
Lights that are lighter on the environment
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…
Breathing new life into old takeaway cups.
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.
The littlest sustainability story, but it counts!
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.
80kgs of coffee chaff a day!
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.
Ever heard of a coffee sack weed matt?
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.
200 tonnes of soft plastics collected and recycled in 2021!
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,
A second life for our coffee bags.
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.
Soft plastics recycling research: Consumers give the thumbs up.
Antica (marketing) and Steph (sales) spent a very chilly Saturday morning conducting grassroots market research at a local soccer park. The goal?
Another win-win for the planet
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..