December 6th, 2018 The amount of plastic waste from the business sector has doubled over the last 10 year, with single-use coffee cups a growing concern, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned. The latest National Waste Characterisation study from the environmental watchdog also revealed that plastics have replaced organic Read more…
May 18th, 2018 Frank and Honest will become the first national coffee brand to do away with non-recyclable-single-use cups and use only compostable cups and lids starting from September. To produce the materials needed for the compostable cups, the Clare based company Cuprint will team up with Ireland’s only compostable Read more…
January 29th, 2018 The culture of drinking coffee has progressively become a profound culture in the Asian country of South Korea. Moving away from the traditional tea drinking culture of South Asia states, South Korea is now considered as one of the biggest coffee drinking countries in Asia, if not Read more…
January 19th, 2017 Once a staunchly tea-drinking nation, in recent years Ireland has progressively swayed further and further toward it’s more exotic cousin, coffee. The once-routine vocabulary of Builders Tea, English Breakfast and Earl Grey has been replaced with Flat Whites, Frappucinos, and Cortados. Coffee culture is now inexorably linked Read more…
January 11th, 2017 Cork City Council is set to bring in a ban on the use of disposable single-use coffee cups in their offices. Starting next week, disposable single-use beverage cups will no longer be available at the Council, with free reusable cups distributed to staff at Cork City Hall Read more…
