Coffee and the Circular Economy: Who Benefits?
So the useful question is not simply whether an idea is new or circular. Who benefits from it? Who carries the extra work? Does it create value across the chain, or mainly a new story to sell? And is it ready to scale, or still worth watching?
Coffee has always rewarded innovation. The next measure of progress may be whether the benefit reaches beyond the companies that own the process, the brand or the story.
“An idea is only progress when its value reaches further.”