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Welcome, welcome. In this article, I do wish to get a little bit serious, but I’m going to do my best to keep it fairly lighthearted so that I refrain from scaring you away. At the very least, my intention is to give you some actionable food for thought. The original title I had penned for this article was ‘What can we - as consumers and citizens - do to help fix the environment?’ Ultimately, I felt that declaring a climate emergency at a personal level may be the umbrella that all of the answers to that question fell under....

I’ve chosen to explore the theme of used coffee grounds because it’s been on my mind ever since I heard an impassioned speech about coffee waste from bio-bean Founder Arthur Kay back in 2015. It was a waste I’d simply overlooked, perhaps many of us have, but Arthur saw that this waste stream held massive energy potential, and so he set about collecting it and converting it into energy. I’d like to say that this was the catalyst for a coffee recycling revolution, but it wasn’t. Why not? Why didn’t the lightbulb ping for every café in the UK and...

The Earth, as powerful and all-encompassing as it is, is a fragile and vulnerable planet with delicate ecosystems. It gives and gives and asks for little in return. Each morning, many of its inhabitants open their eyes, mix ground coffee beans and hot water, and find inspiration and awakening through the resulting drink. Worryingly, climate change places the daily joy of coffee under threat. In this article, we are going to explore these threats, look at what major studies are saying, explore the thoughts of some industry experts, and see both how and why the coffee industry is pivoting to...

In order to understand what makes Halo Capsules so special, first we need to look at the problem Halo Capsules were set up to fix.  Because there IS a problem. And it’s a big one. In 2018, 60 billion coffee capsules were manufactured. That’s a huge number. And of that 60 billion capsules, it’s estimated only 20% were recycled – leaving 48 billion capsules that end up either in landfill or in the world’s oceans, where they not only damage the environment but also cause harm to the world’s wildlife.  Of course, the manufacturers of these pods won’t tell you...