Urban Coffee Company urge customers to do more than just drink their coffee

• Mar. 11 by Sian Jones (1)

Urban Coffee Company have found a variety of ways to conserve coffee and stop generating ‘tons of coffee waste each year’.

Simon Jenner, who owns the coffee shop along with Amir, says:

‘When we started looking at the coffee businesses we realised that the high street stores were sending a serious amount of used coffee to landfill every year which just didn’t make any sense.

The impact that has on the environment is significant and a massive waste, especially when you consider how easy it is to recycle the used coffee.

So from day one we decided to recycle as much coffee as our customers could take.

Our biggest challenge has been educating our customers how they can use the coffee and getting them to take it away on a regular basis.’

How can you re-use the coffee?

The most obvious place to start would be garden compost, liquid fertilizer and applying directly to plants, but some of the more bizarre ways to use the coffee is to touch up furniture scratches or use as a skin pack!

To find out exactly how all this works visit the Urban Coffee Company blog and of course Urban Coffee itself.