Food for Thought

Coffee Grounds – Passion or Poison?

I discovered the other day that 500,000 tonnes of used coffee grounds are produced in the UK each year and that we drink 95 million cups of coffee a day!…

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The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast on Grounds For Recycling

The Good Food For Glasgow Podcast is a podcast by Glasgow Food Policy Partnership (GFPP) which tackles a different food issue or topic from a Glasgow-based perspective each month. As…

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Grounds for a Sustainable Tourism

When I was invited to write this piece, my mind went straight to my granny and her relentless habit to recycle coffee grounds and to place them in her plot…

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Glasgow blazes trail in Recycling Coffee

Over the last few years I have found great joy in the process of making a really good coffee with freshly ground beans from one of my local coffee houses….

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Building a Resilient Future Together

It is an undeniable fact of the new reality that cities around the world, in addition to their own internal challenges, are increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. To address this,…

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The power of the bike can be a force for good in Scotland

Glasgow and across Scotland is no stranger to hosting major international and sporting events, and in the past 10 years alone we’ve delivered the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, the 2014…

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Grounds for Recycling: caffeinating Glasgow’s journey towards net zero

June 2023 As Scotland slowly started coming out of the pandemic, 2021 saw the launch of Plate up for Glasgow – Scotland’s first hospitality industry led campaign. Scheduled to coincide…

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Used Coffee Grounds: an opportunity or just a waste product?

Worldwide an estimated one billion tonnes of coffee waste are produced each year (Jagdale et al., 2019). Most of this goes into landfills in what is probably the biggest lost…

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Should coffee waste be grounds for concern?

Coffee is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages and its production generates large impacts, mostly because of the strong delocalization between the areas of production (the so-called coffee…

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Unleashing the Potential of Coffee: Kaffe Bueno’s Sustainable Innovation

Enter a realm where coffee takes on a whole new meaning, all thanks to Kaffe Bueno. This visionary company is revolutionising the use of coffee by-products, encompassing everything from spent…

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Grounds for Recycling as part of city-wide work towards a more sustainable food system

It’s fantastic to see Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, through its Circular Glasgow initiative, run another environmental campaign, Grounds for Recycling, aimed at hospitality and tourism businesses, this time aiming to…

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