*Disclaimer: It is recommended to brew yourself a tasty cup of coffee as you listen to this episode.

Ooh and as you take that sip, be assured that you are accompanied by 2.26 billion people across the globe. :)

As of today our global coffee market is worth 465 Bn$ and this is expected to grow thrice as much by 2050! 125Mn ppl on our planet are reliant on this coffee market for their livelihood. Globally India being the 6th largest producer of coffee-we are no way behind even in it’s consumption. Approximately 120,000 tonnes of coffee is consumed in our country today.

As I kept reading through these facts, thoughts and questions about spent coffee disposal naturally kept sparking up!

Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, acting as the primary export for many developing countries. Sadly though coffee was traditionally grown in native forests, it has now become increasingly common to replace the diverse ecosystem with a monoculture of coffee plants. This change has profound effects on the species richness and abundance that the landscape can support and the environmental services that can be provided, including soil erosion, pollination, and water clarification. More demand means clearing up more land!

Today, spent coffee grounds are dumped into general waste and sent to landfill where they emit methane – a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide and one of the primary causes of global warming.

Tune into this episode to learn more about:

1) The environmental footprint of coffee;

2) The Coffee Revolution workshop hosted by The Circular Collective in collaboration with Edible Issues & Who feeds Bengaluru;

3) Coffee value-chain

4) How the current market place look like for a second life of spent coffee?

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