NESCAFÉ®'s Journey to a Circular System in Coffee Production

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

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Your delicious cup of NESCAFÉ may help fuel your passion for life and now it may fuel your passion to help the planet. NESCAFÉ is on a journey towards a circular economy, aiming to help farmers improve their water efficiency use in agriculture, powering its factories with biofuel, and making our packaging reusable, repurposed, or recyclable by 2025. It’s a change in waste management, cleaner energy and innovation that helps make a positive impact.

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Water is one of the world’s most precious natural resources and some of our coffee requires a lot of it to grow. At NESCAFÉ^®, we value the water needs of local communities. Today, NESCAFÉ^® is helping farmers grow coffee with solutions that aim to protect water resources. In Vietnam, we’ve helped farmers use 50% less water for irrigation than previous official practices, helping maintaining the same productivity, and provided smart weather apps to tell when to turn on the taps and when to turn them off to help conserve water for their villages. In our nearby coffee factories, we’ve helped to improve water efficiency and saved the equivalent of over thousands Olympic sized swimming pools of water every year. Using less water in coffee production helps improve water conservation in local communities, and support the protection of the water cycle. That’s why NESCAFÉ^® aims to continue to help farmers do more with less water.

LIKE YOU, WE’RE POWERED BY COFFEE

NESCAFÉ^® uses spent coffee grounds to create real energy in most of our factories, reducing tons of waste and greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a simple process where the ground coffee used to brew NESCAFÉ^® is repurposed as biofuel to power our steam boilers. In 2021, this circularity helped NESCAFÉ^® keep 245,000 tons of CO2e from fossil fuels from entering our atmosphere and sends less waste to landfills that would otherwise be transported by heavy trucks. Like you, NESCAFÉ^® cares about the planet and isn’t too proud to reheat our leftovers.

In 2021, NESCAFE kept 245,000 tons of CO₂ from entering the atmosphere, by using spent coffee grounds.

using spent coffee grounds to generate real energy

Making the world better, one NESCAFE coffee at a time

NESCAFÉ^® inspires to change in how its coffee is grown, sourced, manufactured, packaged, and consumed. Every time you enjoy your favorite NESCAFÉ^®, you are supporting a global initiative to help the environment and inspire others to do the same. Every day, NESCAFÉ^® is on a journey towards a circular economy.