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Sustainability
Certifications, shade growing, direct trade, and the difference between a label that means something and a label that means a fee was paid. Coffee is a crop grown by people whose margins are thinner than anyone in the supply chain above them, and the buying decisions that matter are not the obvious ones.
Sourcing and waste
What coffee labels guarantee, and what happens to coffee after the cup.
Coffee Certifications: What Each Label Actually GuaranteesFair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, organic, Bird Friendly and direct trade promise different things, and one of them is not a certification at all.
Compostable Coffee Pods: What the Certification Actually PromisesCertified compostable almost always means an industrial facility, not your garden, and most US kerbside programmes will not take it.