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Within the coffee industry, terms such as ‘Fairtrade’ and ‘organic’ are very common to see on coffee packaging, but what do they actually mean? We’ve taken an in-depth look at these two terms this month to help us understand what they truly mean.

Firstly let's look at the key differences between the two, Fairtrade is all about the supply chain and making sure farmers across the world are paid fairly for their work. Organic is about production of coffee and what physical things have been used in the process.

What can you do with used coffee grounds?

We first became aware of the various reuse options for used coffee grounds over a decade ago, when Simon and his wife, Caroline, ran a visitor attraction in Devon and David supplied them with coffee. The attraction had a very busy coffee shop with a customer base including many avid gardeners. Some of these customers regularly asked for the used coffee grinds from our busy coffee machines. These customers used the grounds in their gardens as a slug repellant!