Not just steam wafting from your coffee

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VANCOUVER – There’s more than just steam wafting from your morning coffee — every cup you drink also leaves behind a trail of carbon dioxide.

And Salt Spring Coffee co., an independent roaster from British Columbia, has determined the carbon footprint of its coffee beans and is working to offset those emissions.

The company partnered with Offsetters, a carbon offsetting company that also worked with the Vancouver Olympics, and calculated that a bag of coffee produces about 1,800 grams of carbon dioxide.

That total includes everything from picking the beans and transporting them to B.C.’s Salt Spring Island to be roasted, to consumers brewing the coffee and, more often than not, tossing the used grounds in the garbage.

For the average Canadian coffee drinker, that could add up to approximately 34 kilograms of carbon dioxide in a year — the equivalent of driving a mid-sized car for about 170 kilometres.

Salt Spring Coffee already buys carbon offsets to account for its roasting and distribution and is now adding the emissions from the picking and pre-processing to one of its coffee lines, although the company points out about two-thirds of the total emissions rest with the consumer.

Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/not-just-steam-wafting-from-your-coffee-bc-roaster-calculates-carbon-footprint-97416314.html

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