Coffee Break

Flavia coffee helps offices go green

I love pretty shiny things. I love things that are better for the environment. I love friendly people. And I love coffee. When you put all of those together, you’ve got a win-win-win situation that is guaranteed to get my attention. That’s why the very nice letter I got from a PR rep at Mars Drinks caught my attention this morning.

See, Mars Drinks makes the coffee that’s used in the Flavia single serve coffee machine. I first ran into the Flavia at my kids’ dentist’s office almost ten years ago. This was long before I ever heard of Senseo or Keurig. In fact, the Flavia was the first single serve coffee system that I ever saw. And since it was a shiny new thing that had to do with making coffee, I had to try it.

It was pretty cool to be able to have a cup of gourmet flavored coffee whenever I took the kids to the dentist. Even better - my son fell in love with the machine, which meant that he was making coffee for everyone in the waiting room instead of climbing the walls and slipping unnoticed out the door into traffic. I loved the Flavia office coffee maker and wondered how much it would cost to buy one for my kitchen.

Alas, it was not to be. Flavia concentrates on office coffee service rather than the home market, so I tend to leave them out of the reckoning when I’m pulling up things to write about. Which isn’t quite fair, since Flavia does make a couple of small single serve coffee brewers for the home kitchen - and I do know that some people out there are trying to figure out how to make better coffee at the office - without over-running the budget.

So, when I checked the mail this morning and found a note from Andrea at Flavia, I figured I’d share it. Here’s the scoop:

In today’s world, companies are doing all they can to try to go green. Mars Drinks recently launched a sustainability initiative for FLAVIA, its line of single serve hot beverages that are made specifically for the workplace.  The first step was having three of its most popular beverages (House Blend, Breakfast Blend and Kona Blend) certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee is grown on farms where forests are protected, rivers, soils and wildlife are conserved and workers are treated with respect, paid decent wages, properly equipped and given access to education and medical care.

However Mars doesn’t stop there, it’s also working to green other aspects of the Flavia workplace experience by offering:

• Cups that use 10% post-consumer recycled materials
• The packs, which hold the fresh ground coffee and tea leaves, are now 20% smaller, leading to decreased waste
• The merchandiser, which displays the packs in offices, is made from 90% post-consumer recycled content
• The rail, a piece of hard material that the packs are stored in, is made from fully recyclable material.

So if you’re considering an office coffee solution, do take the time to check out the Flavia and the thirty kinds of coffee, espresso, chocolate and tea that they offer in Flavia packs for your office.

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