Click here to read the full article. Speakers at the recent Store Brands webinar on composting discussed how private label brands can become compost-friendly. Store Brands hosted its Understand & Communication Composting webinar on Wednesday, featuring four guests who spoke on how the private label industry is working sustainability, with a focus on…
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Ontario Made Program
Club Coffee is proud to be a member of the Ontario Made program created by Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME). Ontario Made provides a platform for all manufacturers in Ontario to showcase their locally made products. Shopping locally helps support communities close to home as well as providing a more…
Club Coffee Joins Other Sustainability Leaders in the Canada Plastics Pact
Club Coffee is pleased to support the launch of the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP). Building on packaging innovations such as our compostable PurPod100 single serve coffee pods, we are one of the 40+ partners who have committed to end plastic waste and pollution in Canada. John Pigott, CEO of Club Coffee, noted, “We…
Club Coffee Welcomes Ontario Government Support for Compostable Coffee Pods in Municipal Composting Systems
TORONTO, Sept. 30, 2020 Club Coffee welcomes the Ontario government announcement that municipalities should now include certified compostable coffee pods in their food waste diversion programs under the province’s updated Food and Organic Waste Policy Statement. “Ontario government support for compostable coffee pods including Club Coffee’s PurPod100™ is a game-changer,” said Club Coffee CEO John Pigott. “We look forward to working…
Club Coffee participates in Building the Bioeconomy Campaign
The campaign recently launched in the National Post and Innovating Canada online. Plastic pollution is a huge issue in Canada. Since as little as 9% of Canada’s plastic gets recycled, consumers are turning to alternatives such as innovative plant-based materials. Learn about Canada’s growing bioeconomy sector and new ways that our economy can find more…
Compostable Coffee Pods Recognized by Nature
Compostable coffee pods have just been recognized in Nature, the world’s most respected natural science research publication. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65058-1 A study by researchers at the University of Tennessee’s main campus in Knoxville (UTK) assessed the environmental and economic performance of compostable coffee pods compared to plastic coffee pods. The UTK research team reported that compostable coffee…
Plant Based Products Council (PBPC) Sets the Record Straight on CBC Marketplace Report
Plant Based Products: Story below was taken from the PBPC website: https://pbpc.com/to-cbc-needs-improvement/ To CBC: Infrastructure, Not Plant Based Products, Needs Improvement A recent CBC Marketplace piece focuses on how Canadian grocery stores are filled with single-use plastic packaging used for a wide variety of products. It concludes that many of these legacy plastic materials are not properly disposed…
Compostable Coffee Pods: THE FACTS About
A recent CBC Marketplace episode reported misleading and erroneous information on compostable coffee pods. Here are the FACTS: Our plant-based compostable coffee pods thoroughly break down in the most common municipal composting technologies in North America (aerobic and anaerobic pre-processing). Our compostable coffee pods have been successfully tested in many Canadian municipalities, including the City…
Single-use plastic pollution must consider all stakeholders
The Canadian government recently announced it would be tackling the global pollution crisis with bans on single-use plastics. The details of the Canadian plan remain to be seen, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would follow the lead of the European Union with their vote to ban items that often end up littered in…
Compostable VS. Plastic Coffee Pods
Separating Fact From Fiction – Get answers to your questions! – Are plastic coffee pods recyclable? – Why aren’t the KCup and RealCup pods recyclable? – I thought that if I separate the lid from the plastic pod, and dump out the coffee, I can put it in my Blue Bin? – Why do some…
