First, Douwe Egberts liquid coffee practically eliminates waste with our One-Touch Coffee System. No need for coffee filters – coffee can be dispensed on demand, cup by cup, so no stale coffee, and thus no water, or coffee, is ever wasted.
A single carton of Douwe Egberts liquid coffee can serve the same number of cups as 50 pots of traditional filter-brewed coffee, reducing landfill to a single bag and doser instead of 50 filters, 50 coffee packs and 50 clumps of wet coffee grounds. In addition, the Douwe Egberts C60, C500, C600 and C700 dispensers use computer-managed power consumption with an energy saving mode. And, Douwe Egberts coffee carton exteriors are recyclable.
Second, we’re passionate about extending our “green” efforts to plant operations. The Douwe Egberts plant in Suffolk, VA, uses the spent coffee grounds as fuel for the plant once the beans are brewed. This innovative process reduces our dependence on fossil fuel energy and also decreases the amount of grounds sent to the landfill from 150 dumpsters per year to just one or two. The plant also reduces its fresh water needs by over one million gallons a year by recycling water in the handling process.
These are some of the ways Douwe Egberts liquid coffee gives operators sustainability benefits with the environmentally friendly One-Touch Coffee System.
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