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Grinders Coffee Sustainability Actions

Home-compostable takeaway cups

Grinders Coffee said in 2024 that its takeaway coffee cups are certified for home composting. Home composting means the cup can break down in a home compost bin, rather than needing industrial processing. This is a packaging change aimed at making takeaway coffee easier to dispose of in a lower-waste way. The claim is about the cups, not the whole product range, and the source does not show how widely the cups are used across the business.

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Shared coffee story with farmers

The brand says it connects coffee farmers, roasters, baristas, and coffee drinkers across Australia. It also published a story in 2025 about the Tierra Lenca Women’s Cooperative in Honduras, a group of indigenous women coffee growers. The article presents the cooperative as helping women improve their families’ income and community life through coffee farming. This is a communication piece rather than a full sustainability report, but it shows the brand highlighting supply-chain relationships and producer stories.

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Uses some certified coffee

Independent ethical review content says Grinders Coffee Pty Ltd sells Rainforest Alliance certified coffee, Fairtrade Certified coffee, and products certified organic under the Australian Certified Organic label. Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade are certification systems that set rules for farming and trade, while organic certification sets limits on certain farming inputs. The review also notes that these certified products make up only a fraction of total coffee sales, so they do not cover the whole business.

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Parent company packaging work

Ethical review content says the wider Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia business received a top packaging performance level of 5 in APCO’s 2026 annual report. APCO, the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation, rates members on packaging planning and improvement. The same source says the company has also won packaging awards for using less plastic and for recycled PET, which is plastic made from recycled material. These actions sit at the parent-company level, not just the coffee brand.

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Parent company climate steps

The ethical review source says Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc received a CDP Climate Change score of A in 2025 and a CDP Water Security score of A-. CDP, the Carbon Disclosure Project, is a group that scores companies on how well they disclose and manage climate and water risks. The same source says the company has committed to 100% renewable electricity by 2030, signed at least one power purchase agreement, and invested in on-site solar. These are parent-company actions, not direct Grinders Coffee disclosures.

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Responsible alcohol marketing code

The wider Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia business is listed as a signatory to the ABAC Responsible Alcohol Marketing Code. ABAC is a code that sets rules for alcohol advertising in Australia. This is not a coffee-specific action, but it is part of the broader company group’s public responsibility framework. The source also notes voluntary contributions to DrinkWise Australia, a group that says it works on safer drinking culture.

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Packaging recycling partnership

Ethical review content says the parent company partnered with Circular Plastics Australia on a recycling program that recovers PET plastic from the Pacific Islands and turns it into new bottles. PET is a common plastic used for drink bottles. The source presents this as a recycling initiative linked to packaging recovery and reuse, although the excerpt does not give full details on scale or results.

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Brand events and community links

Grinders Coffee has promoted café partner testimonials, an Immersion programme, and event tie-ins such as the Santos Tour Down Under. These are not direct environmental actions, but they show the brand building relationships with cafés and coffee communities. The sustainability relevance is limited, so this item is included only because the brand frames its community work as part of how it operates.

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