Origin Coffee Announces NetZero Ambitions by 2030

Origin Coffee has announced their ambition to be NetZero by 2030 through a series of pioneering approaches with their recently opened flagship roastery and café in Porthleven leading the way.

In line with UN Sustainable Development Goals, Origin is focusing on taking the lead in the coffee industry to strive to become NetZero by 2030. The business is bound by one central ethos; to source exceptional coffee through a sustainable, triple bottom line approach. 

Having opened in April 2021, 25% of the Roastery’s electricity is now generated by solar panels, helping to roast six tonnes of coffee each week to wholesale customers, Origin Coffee shops and e-commerce customers. The Roastery also recycles all hessian coffee sacks used in the process of roasting coffee, approximately 100 sacks a week. The majority of used ones are sold online with all proceeds going to Project Waterfall. Excess sacks are sent to Ellis Jute, who recycle them in to new jute products including carpet underlay. Even the dust produced in the recycling processed is reused in fertiliser.   

In 2019 over a thousand less coffee cups were used across Origin’s outlets in Cornwall and London, despite producing over three and a half tons of coffee that year and this year, it is eliminating any plastic in its takeaway cups, with the replacements being 100% compostable. 

Tom Sobey, founder of Origin Coffee says: ‘As a business, we avoid greenwashing at all costs. We won’t make bold statements unless we can back them up and demonstrate how we are doing them. No business is 100% perfect in the way they operate and we are aware that this is a journey of continuous improvement. 

It’s not only us making a conscious effort, we are increasingly finding our customers are bringing back used coffee bags and coffee pods through us to be recycled to ensure they’re going through the proper channels. 

I am very excited about our journey over the next nine years as we endeavor to align with UN Sustainable Development Goals and become NetZero by 2030.  We have some other additional projects in the pipeline over the coming months also, which we’re looking forward to announcing.’