Starbucks Perks up Gardens; Complimentary Spent Coffee Grounds Available for Compost.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004 As part of its annual effort to promote environmental awareness in stores, Starbucks invites customers to pick up a free bag of spent coffee grounds coffee grounds a term used to describe vomited blood. See hematemesis. from any neighborhood Starbucks store through the year-round Grounds for Your Garden program. The program, which began in 1995, offers complimentary coffee grounds every day of the year to customers for use in gardens and compost bins. Today, this waste reduction program has become a popular way for gardeners across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to enrich their gardens. Starbucks also donates grounds to parks, schools and nurseries as a soil amendment. Coffee Grounds make up the heaviest portion of waste in Starbucks stores, making the Grounds for Your Garden program a significant waste-reduction opportunity. Coffee grounds act as a green material with a carbon-nitrogen (C-N) ratio of 20-1. They make an excellent addition to home gardening compost. Tips for Gardening with Grounds: -- Mix grounds with soil around acid-loving plants and watch them flourish -- Add brown leaves and grass clippings to mulch mulch, any material, usually organic, that is spread on the ground to protect the soil and the roots of plants from the effects of soil crusting, erosion, or freezing; it is also used to retard the growth of weeds. to help balance the pH of the soil -- Mix grounds into compost to accelerate the composting process -- Grounds should be no more than 25% of any one compost pile's content -- To counter acidity acidity /acid·i·ty/ (-i-te) the quality of being acid; the power to unite with positively charged ions or with basic substances. a·cid·i·ty n. The state, quality, or degree of being acid. of coffee grounds, add 1 teaspoon of lime or wood for each 5 lbs. of coffee grounds in your compost pile Noun 1. compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost compost heap cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other -- Help a worm bin flourish by feeding worms with coffee grounds combined with brown materials Starbucks stores package spent coffee grounds in recycled bags and offer them free of charge on a first-come, first serve basis. Starbucks Corporation is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world, with retail locations in North America, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . The Company is committed to offering the highest quality coffee and the Starbucks Experience while conducting its business in ways that produce social, environmental and economic benefits for communities in which it does business. In addition to its retail operations, the Company produces and sells bottled Frappuccino(R) coffee drinks, Starbucks DoubleShot(TM) coffee drink, and a line of superpremium ice creams through its joint venture partnerships. The Company's brand portfolio provides a wide variety of consumer products. Tazo Tea's line of innovative premium teas and Hear Music's exceptional compact discs enhance the Starbucks Experience through best-of-class products. The Seattle's Best Coffee Seattle's Best Coffee is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It became part of Starbucks Corporation on July 14, 2003. Its international division is owned by FOCUS Brands, Inc. (R) and Torrefazione Italia Torrefazione Italia café first opened in Seattle, Washington, in 1986. Espresso, coffee and baked goods were served in their cafés. Umberto Bizzari, Torrefazione's founder teamed up with Stewart Brother's Coffee (later renamed Seattle's Best Coffee) founder, Jim Stewart in (R) Coffee brands enable Starbucks to appeal to a broader consumer base by offering an alternative variety of coffee flavor profiles. For more information on the Grounds for Your Garden program or Starbucks environmental efforts, please contact Jay Smith at PriceMcNabb (704-916-6196). |
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