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No More Plastic Waste From Coffee to Go Cups

Environmentally conscious coffee drinkers face an unsolved problem. You can now buy coffee on every corner, even in small towns. So far so good. The beloved hot drink is available there in a practical coffee to go cup. The coffee mug is used once, thrown away and is anything but environmentally friendly. Every second, thousands of coffee cups made of paper fibers and the industrially manufactured plastic polyethylene pollute our environment. In addition, the disposable cups contain lids and stirrers made of plastic, which also pollute the environment and are hardly biodegradable. In Germany, around three billion disposable cups are thrown away every year, of which 320,000 coffee cups are thrown away every hour. If you want to enjoy coffee on the go without regrets, you should look around for an alternative to the environmentally harmful coffee mug. The reusable cup is an alternative.

The reusable cup allows you to enjoy coffee with a clear conscience

If you want to continue drinking your coffee on the go, you can use a reusable cup. Enjoyment is also possible in a coffee to go cup, but is no longer clouded by a bad conscience. The practical reusable cups are made of bamboo, porcelain, glass, ceramic and stainless steel.

Glass, ceramics and porcelain are not particularly shockproof and should therefore be viewed with caution. Coffee mugs made of stainless steel are more suitable. The bamboo coffee to go cups often contain half bamboo and half plastic. Some are made entirely of plastic, resin, and cornmeal. It’s worth taking a close look at the ingredients in the coffee mug. The coffee stays warm longer in the insulated reusable cup. Take a look at our webshop and buy delicious coffee or practical portioned items to go with your coffee to go mug. So you always have sugar and milk in practical portions with you.

Reusable cups are also subject to strict hygiene regulations

Reusable cups can be taken anywhere. The practical coffee mugs are useful companions that make environmentally friendly coffee enjoyment to go possible. After use, rinse out your coffee to go mug and take it with you again. Coffee to go cups are subject to strict hygiene regulations.

This must be taken into account when pouring. Hygiene experts fear that coffee cups brought in and kept in non-sterile handbags will come into contact with bacteria. This can lead to contamination of the coffee machines behind the counter. To avoid this, the reusable cup should be filled on the sales counter. Don’t be surprised if the waiter doesn’t go behind the counter with your coffee to go cup.

Coffee to go cups are very trendy

Coffee enjoyment to go is in great demand and is trendy. It is very practical to be able to drink coffee anywhere. The environmentally friendly alternative, the reusable cup, has also been further perfected. There are now deposit systems for coffee to go cups.

You receive your coffee in a reusable cup and pay a deposit for it. If you return the empty coffee mug to another branch, your deposit will be refunded. In this way, the practical coffee to go cups can be used again and again.

You can find an ecologically very valuable variant of a to-go cup in our web shop. The bamboo coffee to go cup consists mainly of bamboo fibers – a rapidly renewable raw material. In addition, the mug is even dishwasher safe.

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Foodwaste – A Spice Against Food Waste

Imagine you go shopping and throw a third of the goods in the garbage can. Absurd? Should you think! But a third is actually exactly the amount of food that ends up in the garbage worldwide every year. This enormous food waste is a major problem of our time. And a large part of this goes back to private households. Find out here what you can do to reduce food waste.

Far too large a proportion of the world’s population has no access to food and is starving. While a third of our food is literally produced “for the bin”. Around 12 tons of food are wasted along the food supply chain in Germany alone. 173 kilograms are thrown away by every person in the EU every year. That’s shocking. We live in an abundance that has reached dangerous levels – for people, but also for the environment.

Food waste – a gigantic problem for people and the planet

Mindful handling of food offers numerous advantages for us humans and the planet. If we didn’t waste food on a massive scale, we could improve global food security, combat climate change, strengthen biodiversity and relieve waste management systems, to name just a few positive aspects. Unfortunately, far too little attention has been paid to this topic so far.

It is not that difficult to avoid food waste in your own household – there is often simply a lack of awareness of it. It would be really important in private. At around 52 percent, an enormous proportion of food waste along the food supply chain can be traced back to private households. And with that on us, because we are at the end of the supply chain. But that also means: We consumers have the greatest power to change something about this problem.

There are many tips on how to avoid food waste. This starts with a well-planned purchase, through the correct storage of fruit and vegetables, for example, to the fact that the best-before date is not an indicator for simply throwing away a product unopened. Awareness of food rations and the courage to simply reuse leftovers are also decisive for less food waste.

Foodprep instead of foodwaste: creativity and intuition in the kitchen

A well thought-out collection of recipes can help you to perfectly match dishes and ingredients so that as little as possible is left over or can be reused. Key word: food prep.

For example, if you plan your week culinary with a menu, you can pre-cook the basis of rice, potatoes or pasta in reasonable quantities and refine them with vegetables or other side dishes, toppings and fresh herbs. If something is left over, it’s time to get creative: You can often combine leftovers from the previous day wonderfully or spice them up with little tricks.

For example, have you ever tried to process leftover vegetables into a delicious spread? Fine soups can still be conjured up from the tired carrot and the no longer quite so crunchy beetroot. Greens that would otherwise end up in the compost are suitable as the basis for a delicious pesto. Leftover potatoes or pasta are great as a casserole or fried can make you full and happy. Rice, quinoa, millet & Co. are the best basis for colorful bowls. The imagination knows no limits.

Dare and let your intuition guide you. You’ll see how much fun it is to fight food waste in your own kitchen.

The best for leftovers – A universal seasoning for the leftover kitchen

Are you still missing a bit of pep with your leftover dishes? If salt and pepper are too boring for you, the herb specialist SONNENTOR has just the thing for you!

“The best for leftovers” is a spice mixture that was specially developed for the leftover kitchen. The mixture has two special features: First, it goes with every dish. Secondly, it comes from experts – namely from the social media community of the Austrian company. She created and designed the seasoning all-rounder especially for leftovers. The name also goes back to the herbal community. Edith and Johannes Gutmann, the owners of SONNENTOR, chose the final name “Das Beste für Reste” from hundreds of fan submissions.

The fans of Sonnentor agreed: For a perfect mixture of spices for leftovers, you need tomato flakes, sea salt, parsley, onion pieces, oregano, garlic and black pepper. According to fans, this combination of the finest organic spices gets the best out of the leftovers.

ZeroWaste in the kitchen – attract attention and raise awareness

With this project, SONNENTOR not only wants to revolutionize the taste of leftovers, but above all wants to raise awareness of food waste. The aim is to shape a sustainable future together – and with “The best for leftovers” everyone will succeed in avoiding food waste in their own kitchen.

Under the hashtag #missionleftoverkitchen, the organic pioneer launched a call to use up all the supplies at home and to ban the topic of food waste from the kitchen. SONNENTOR fans also regularly receive tips and inspiration for leftover dishes.

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