Sustainability

🎯Our Goals and Vision🎯

K+ Coffee strives to be the coffee of the future! Our ambition is to embed sustainability into every aspect of the business, and to become a coffee brand that is fit for a future planet, and for our future generations. 💪

We aim to do our best to ensure the carbon footprint is minimal, and to set better standard for Corporate Social Responsibilities. We aim to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through actionable and scalable practices, and continue to contribute positively to our beautiful planet and vibrant society.🧭

☕ Our Coffee ☕

🌾 Like many responsible specialty coffee brands, K+ provide all our customers a sustainable supply of quality and distinctive coffee that is free from defects, and make sure that the coffee growers receive the support they need in the right way. 👩🌾

🚜 Our coffee importers, who runs meaningful and supportive projects in the coffee growing regions, always pay above the minimum Fairtrade price, and always way above the market price for our specialty beans. ⚖️

Read more about our sustainable coffee sourcing HERE.

All our specialty beans are freshly roasted in the UK, powered by renewable energy and 'Loring' - the most environmentally-friendly roasting machine on the market which produces smokeless roasting via a patented design, and up to 80% fuel-savings and reduction of greenhouse gases in every roast, compared to conventional roasters.

♻️ Product & Packaging ♻️

We are constantly researching for innovations to improve our coffee and products, with the ambitious goal of soon offering a 100% certified biodegradable and compostable packaging. 💚 Our ideal coffee packaging for beans would be made of a home compostable material, alongside a one way valve to release the gas generated by fresh beans, and with the durability and oxygen barrier required to keep coffee fresh, as well as keeping the precious coffee beans secure in transit.

Currently, due to global pandemic situation and material shortage around the world, our coffee beans are packed in fully recyclable bags made from LDPE (Low density polythene) which bears the recyclable 4 logo ♶. Most large supermarkets in the UK have a carrier bag recycling point where the bags can be placed for recycling. Our drip filter bag is recyclable and industrial compostable.

Find out more at TerraCycle how to better recycle the packaging.

♾️ We aim to re-use and innovate with coffee waste, and soon will be launching a line of merchandise made from recycled coffee grounds.

🌱 Carbon Offsetting🌱

There is always more that we can do to become greener, and this is why we have enabled many ways to offset our carbon footprints and to contribute positively to our lovely planet:

🌳 For every order made on our website, we plant trees around the world via Ecologi.

Find out more about the trees we plant HERE.

🍀 We collaborate with Cloverly to enable carbon neutral shipping options at the check out, so our customers have the option to offset and minimise the carbon footprint of their online order from K+ and see and track the carbon offset details directly.

Click HERE and offset 42.5KG of carbon with Cloverly for just £0.30!

💳 Checking out your K+ Coffee order via SHOP Pay? You’ll reduce the environmental impact of your deliveries for free too!

Shop Pay works with WeForest, and together we will:

🐘Rebuild habitat for endangered species and wildlife
🐠Grow fish populations and support sustainable harvesting
🌍Capture the CO₂ produced by your Shop Pay deliveries

⚙️ Our Operation ⚙️

🖨️ We run a lean operation and recycle all that we can, eliminate unnecessary paper use during our day to day operation, and this is why you won’t see extra packing slips and promotional leaflets in our parcels.

📦 We use biodegradable filling for packaging. We try to cut out plastic use as much as possible and also encourage our suppliers to do so too.

🚛 We work with couriers such as Royal Mail (identified as the most eco-friendly delivery company in 2020) and DPD (a carbon neutral company).

❤️Corporate Social Responsibilities❤️

Female founded and female led, K+ team is currently consist of 70% female members 👩

📚 And as we grow, we hope to provide more employment opportunities, provide free education for the younger generations seeking a career in coffee -

We currently run a 'Coffee School' blog, read more HERE.

🚚 We aim to collaborate with local suppliers as much as possible, and to work in partnerships to achieve a sustainable and carbon neutral supply and value chain.

😋 We're excited to put a smile on your face every time you drink a cup of our coffee, and would love to hear your thoughts and ideas of how to improve our products and be more sustainable, and let's work together to do our earth proud! 💡

✨Happy (Responsible) Sipping!✨