Cut the junk out of coffee junkie. Instead of a foam or paper cup, use your own travel mug if you are on the go, or ask the café for glass if you have a few extra minutes. Drinking from class or a coffee in a handmade pottery mug is always tastier than dribbling coffee down your shirt in the drive through.
Not only can you cut waste but Styrofoam can actually disrupt your hormones. And you don’t want to ingest the chlorine used to bleach paper cups, they create carcinogenic dioxins during production.
How to have a sustainable coffee break
- Avoid capsules
- Use an American drip, pour-over or classic espresso machine to brew your coffee
- Buy organic and fair-trade coffee or visit cafes that support regenerative agriculture and farm to table
- Drink slowly and from a glass cup or coffee mug
- Talk to your neighbor or read a print newsaper or book
- Recycle your coffee grounds in the compost
- Compost filters or make your own cotton reusable filter
- Use organic milk or a no-milk alternative like oat milk
If your home java is as good as store bought then consider bringing it in a thermos. You can save cash and regulate your intake at the same time.
Read more on sustainable coffee:
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Author: Jack Reichert
As far back as he can remember Jack Reichert has been interested in the environment. In the second grade, he rallied all of his classmates to donate one recess a week to cleaning up litter from the schoolyard. That was the same year that a city councilman asked him to help with his campaign because of the letter Jack had written asking him to clean up Boston Harbor. Ever since Jack has followed the development of the international green conscience with anticipation and hope that one day we will treat Mother Earth with the respect she deserves and not turn her into another Giving Tree. For tips, feedback and prophet sightings, Jack can be reached at jack (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
