Reducing your personal carbon footprint can be a difficult task, especially since we often don’t realize how much the small things we do impact the environment. Coffee for example is an essential part of most of our lives, especially during the end of semester craziness. According to the in International Coffee Organization, on average Americans drink 9.26 pounds of coffee a day!
Coffee production and distribution methods both have a significant impact on the environment. Fertilizers and machinery used on 
Should we all give up drinking coffee? I don’t know. What probably more important to realize is that almost everything we do has an impact on the environment. This impact needs to be part of our decision making process. Here’s another statistic that should get you thinking: 1000 Americans would have to give up coffee to compensate for the emissions from 1 car! So if coffee is too dear to you maybe its time to think about taking the train.
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Another source of pollution from coffee consumption is the actual roasting process. Typical coffee roasters consume prodigious amounts of fuel, and belch smoke into the atmosphere. Coffee packaging is another source of coffee pollution; typical coffee bags will never decay in a landfill.
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