Title: Coffee | Ethical Consumer
Headings: Coffee
Coffee
In this guide we investigate, score and rank the ethical and environmental record of 56 brands of ground coffee, coffee beans, pods and instant coffee
What to buy
What to look for when buying coffee:
Best Buys
Best Buys are the double certified+ brands:
Recommended buys
What not to buy
What to avoid when buying coffee:
Companies to avoid
FAQs
Score table
Updated live from our research database
Bird & Wild bean & ground coffee [F,O,S]
Revolver ground & beans & pods [F,O]
Cafe Rebelde Zapatista ground & beans [F,O]
Source Climate Change ground & beans [O,S]
Revolver ground & beans & pods [F]
Cafedirect Fairtrade & organic coffee [F,O,]
Cafeology Fairtrade Organic coffee beans & ground [F,O]
Cafeology triple certified beans [F,O,S]
Union Hand Roasted ground & beans [DT,O]
Percol instant & ground [O,F]
Cafedirect Fairtrade ground, instant & pods [F]
Cafeology ground coffee [F]
Equal Exchange coffee bean & ground [F,O]
Union Hand Roasted [O]
Union Hand Roasted ground & beans [DT]
Cafeology beans & ground coffee [S]
Percol ground &bean coffee [F]
Percol instant, ground & capsules [O]
Suma ground & beans [F,O]
Percol - instant & pods [S]
Solino ground & beans [S]
Union Hand Roasted ground & beans
Lavazza capsule [O,S]
Percol instant coffee
Rombouts bean, ground & pod [F,O]
Traidcraft organic coffee bean & ground [F,O]
Carte Noire instant& ground & capsules
Lavazza ground & beans & capsules
Red Mountain instant coffee
Taylors of Harrogate ground coffee [F]
Traidcraft coffee bean & ground & instant [F]
Grumpy Mule ground coffee [F,O]
Rombouts beans, ground & pods
Taylors of Harrogate ground & beans [S]
Clipper Fairtrade Organic instant & ground coffee [F,O]
Orang Utan coffee beans [S]
Bewley's coffee capsules [F]
Illy ground & beans & capsules
Lyons beans & ground coffee bags
Grumpy Mule ground coffee [S]
Grumpy Mule coffee beans
Caffe Nero coffee beans & ground
Whittard ground & beans
Costa coffee beans & ground [S]
L'Or espresso pods [S]
Douwe Egberts ground, beans & instant
Kenco ground, beans & instant
L'Or instant coffee
Senseo coffee pods
Starbucks Fair Trade (from a Starbucks shop) [F]
Tassimo coffee pods
Starbucks (from a Starbucks shop)
Nescafe instant coffee
Nespresso [F]
Nespresso capsule
Starbucks (from a non-Starbucks shop)
Twinings ground coffee
What is most important to you?
Full customisation controls
Our Analysis
Table highlights
Coffee in a changing climate
Have workers’ rights improved?
Demand for Ethical Coffee
Direct trading
Value adding at source
Shade grown
Coffee waste
Let’s talk about pods
Pod materials
Is there an ethical pod?
Coffee grounds: from ‘waste’ to resource
Sustainable Coffee Supply Chains
Teikei Coffee, Germany
Bwindi Forest Farm, Uganda
Rongo Coffee, Kenya
Supporting regenerative agro-ecological coffee
Company behind the brand
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Content: Coca-Cola is also being boycotted following claims that it had been involved in the murders of union leaders at its factories in South America, and in other instances of violence, intimidation and workers' rights abuses. This means that the Costa coffee score, which used to be 6, has now plummeted to 1 and Costa now comes at the bottom of our coffee shops score table. Starbucks
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Score table
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Brand
Score (out of 20)
Ratings Categories
Positive Scores
Bird & Wild bean & ground coffee [F,O,S]
Company Profile: Bird & Wild Coffee
18
Environment
People
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Revolver ground & beans & pods [F,O]
Company Profile: Revolver World Cooperative Coffee
17
Environment
People
Politics
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Cafe Rebelde Zapatista ground & beans [F,O]
Company Profile: Cafe Libertad Kollektiv eG
16.5
Environment
People
Animals
Politics
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Source Climate Change ground & beans [O,S]
Company Profile: Source Sustainable Supply Chains Ltd
16.5
Environment
People
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Revolver ground & beans & pods [F]
Company Profile: Revolver World Cooperative Coffee
16
Environment
People
Politics
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Cafedirect Fairtrade & organic coffee [F,O,]
Company Profile: Cafédirect
15
Environment
People
Product sustainability
Company Ethos
Cafeology Fairtrade Organic coffee beans & ground [F,O]
Company Profile: Cafeology
15
Environment
People
Product sustainability
Cafeology triple certified beans [F,O,S]
Company Profile: