Environmental Stewardship

Our goal is to reduce our waste each year in pursuit of our 0% target. The programs in place include:

• jute bags converted in-house into reusable shopping bags
• skids re-used for outgoing shipments
• coffee chaff (from roasting) and coffee grounds (from brewing) used as compost by a local organic vegetable farm
• all plastics recycled
• all paper products purchased by the Muskoka Roastery Coffee Company are FSC certified and are recycled after use

Our baseline in 2010 was 350 kg of waste for landfill. In fiscal 2011, we reduced this figure to just less than 100 kg, and in fiscal 2012 it has come down to 78 kg. Still more than zero however, so our work is not done!

To read more about our program, check out the Blog that describes in detail how we tackled this challenge.

We are pretty excited by the outcome!

To read more about our programs, check out the Local Community Involvement and Grassroots pages.

Evaluation criteria can be found on the Funding Criteria page.