How to Make Your Daily Coffee More Sustainable
Living a more sustainable lifestyle is important as it not only improves our quality of life but also protects our eco-systems and helps us preserve our natural resources. By lowering our carbon emissions, we are reducing the amount of pressure we put on the planet and causing less damage. We are also ensuring that the planet is thriving for future generations.
Knowing how to reduce our carbon footprint and live more sustainable lives is essential, but not many of us realize how we can make greener choices. Even the smallest change to your lifestyle could greatly reduce your carbon footprint, such as ensuring that your coffee habits are much more environmentally friendly. Here is how you can make your daily coffee more sustainable.
Invest in a Reusable Coffee Cup
Not all takeaway coffee cups are recyclable and can cause a lot of waste to build up at a tip, and although many coffee shops are trying to ensure that all their cups are recyclable, it can still be more harmful than investing in your own reusable coffee cup. Rather than buy a takeaway coffee in a takeaway coffee cup, invest in a reusable coffee cup that you can take to a coffee shop, have filled with coffee, and then wash up once you are home or at the office.
Usually, coffee shops will sell reusable coffee cups. What’s more, coffee shops are also more likely to reward their customers who use reusable coffee cups with extra loyalty points or stamps on a customer loyalty card.
There are great benefits to using a reusable coffee cup. Not only do they aid the environment, but they also offer greater heat retention, making your coffee a much more enjoyable experience.
Swap Milk for a Dairy Alternative
The dairy industry, much like the meat industry, can be quite harmful to the environment. Therefore, making the swap from traditional milk to a milk alternative can be beneficial to the environment. Nowadays, you can choose from soya, almond, coconut, and oat milk. Oat milk is believed to be the best alternative due to its ability to mimic the frothiness of barista-style coffee made from traditional milk. Coconut milk can also be perfect for those who want added sweetness to their coffee without the addition of sugar or sweetener.
Even swapping out traditional milk for a milk alternative twice a week can help reduce your carbon footprint. However, if you are unsure as to the benefits of giving up milk, here is a list that could help persuade you.
Buy ‘Eco-Friendly’ Coffee Capsules
For those who enjoy having coffee at home and love to use their coffee machines, you can reduce your carbon footprint by investing in eco-friendly coffee capsules. Nowadays, coffee capsules can be recycled (or taken somewhere special to be recycled) or are made from recycled coffee capsules that have already been used. There are many flavors in Nespresso compatible pods that are also eco-friendly, like the ‘Eco Line’. Such coffee capsules that are organic and 100% compostable can help make you live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.
Shop Locally
Shopping locally can help reduce your footprint, so if you are looking for milk or coffee beans, make sure to head to a local shop that sources their produce from local farmers, etc. You should also shop locally for all your produce, not just for your coffee ingredients.
The smallest of changes to your daily coffee routine can be beneficial to the environment, so if you are looking to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle, think about your coffee first!
