Blog — Sustainability

6 great environmentally friendly uses for old coffee bags

How to send our foil sachets back to us and all the ways we’re trying to offset our environmental impact.

In the light of the recent reporting of child labour on Guatemalan coffee farms, it feels necessary to comment on our company view on the coffee industry and what we do to combat bad labour practises in the sourcing of our coffee. After all, coffee is the second most consumed beverage in the world – and with the extraordinary demand it’s important to establish sustainable and ethical means of producing the product. We want to ensure a product which we feel people can consume without any regrets regarding sustainability and ethics, and that’s why we have chosen to only use...

I’ve posted previously about Fairtrade and why it was a no-brainer from day 1 that New Kings Coffee would be Fairtrade (and Organic). But given it’s Fairtrade Fortnight (26 February to 11 March), it feels appropriate to write again about what Fairtrade means, both to us and to the people who grow and produce our coffee. As Fairtrade say on their website, “It's a shocking fact that millions of farmers and workers who produce the food we love still don’t earn enough to feed their own families”. When I stop and think about that for a second, it’s crazy, right?...