According to a report published by the British parliamentary committee, in the UK at least 2,5 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away per year, and just 0,25% can be recycled. The Environmental Audit Committee, appointed by the House of Commons, suggests a fee to around 10 percent on every cup of coffee sold (named “Latte levy”) for every disposable cup
Category: Coffee Culture
China: The Next Giant Of Coffee Production?
China is unsurprisingly one of the 70 coffee producing countries, since it has a millennia rooted in an unshakeable tea culture.
Russia: An Online Service To Have A Coffee
Coffee Like, a chain of coffee bars, has introduced a new service to the coffee-to-go market in Russia. According to readovka.ru, the coffee shop offers its customers an opportunity – anyone can gift a cup of coffee to a friend, even if the sender does not live in the same city as the recipient. By entering the company’s site, anyone
5 Questions About Coffee, Answered by Research
1. Does Coffee Actually Wake You Up? Although you may often feel like you haven’t woken up until you’ve had your first cup, coffee does not actually wake you up. What caffeine does is block the adenosine—a neurotransmitter that promotes sleep—receptors in your brain. Caffeine has a similar structure to adenosine and therefore it can connect to the same receptors.
Paying Coffee With Bitcoins: Craziness Or The Future?
Physical places to buy a coffee with your Bitcoins Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created and held electronically. Bitcoins are produced by operating computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems. The story goes that a software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin, which was an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof, but it
Largest Russian Coffee Chain Is Leaving Ukraine
The Ukrainian branch of Russia’s largest coffee chain, Coffee House, did not succeed in finding a buyer for its assets and had to cut the number of coffee shops. Previously, the Ukrainian chain included 17 sites, but now only four coffee shops operate under this brand in Kyev, according to biz.liga.net. The expected deal value was between $2 and $3 million.
Blockchain: How Power Relations in the Coffee Chain are Changing
The coffee bean is one of the world’s most valuable agricultural products from the tropics: it’s worth over $100 billion worldwide. The coffee chain is characterised by a huge difference between production and consumption: on one side we have 25 million small farmers producing 80% of the world’s total coffee supply, for less than $2 a day, on the other side we have the “Big Four” coffee roasting companies – Kraft, P&G, Sara Lee and Nestle – buying about 50% of the coffee produced worldwide. This make the relation between buyers and producers in the coffee chain [Sign in to continue]
Belarusian Brand Unites Watches and Coffee
At the end of 2017 Belorussian watch plant Luch decided to make great coffee its new marketing strategy and opened a coffee shop right next to the brand’s store on the first floor of the plant’s main building in Minsk. According to marketing.by, the idea originated from the image of a traditional bookshop where customers can also buy a cup of coffee
Reinventing the Coffee Industry in Romania
Mihai Panfil, the owner of one of the famous cafes to go from Bucharest, emphasizes that the freshly fried coffee is another way to extract and serve coffee. However, this new way of serving coffee has made the older companies afraid, because people are used to a certain taste of the past and they are not eager to accept the
Brexit and La Niña Threaten Britain’s Coffee Prices
The UK is about to face a potential increase in food prices, including coffee and cacao: it is due to the global weather phenomenon called La Niña, that is going to probably cause issues to the food market in the UK in 2018, according to The Guardian. Britain, in fact, is expected to be heavy affected by this weather phenomenon