Inverness Coffee Roasting are delighted to be partnering with Highland Wholefoods Workers Co-operative to offer locally roasted organic coffee beans (whole or ground) in biodegradable, compostable bags.

You can find Highland Wholefoods details at http://www.highlandwholefoods.co.uk/

They are currently stocking organic Ethiopian Harrar and Colombian and would love to see you or hear from you. Click for contact details

So what do we really mean when we say something is biodegradable?

Techie bit

The EN13432 certification is a European standard specifying how much of the bag must degrade within a set period of time. Basically, 90% of the material must degrade completely within 90 days, and at the very least 90% of the fragments left must be smaller than 2mm. The standard allows up to 2% of non-biodegradable content, as long as this does not contain any heavy metals. They will impede plants from growing in the mulch from the degraded materials – this is actually a test parameter for the EN13432 standard for biodegradability.

Check out this post to find out what the difference is between the difference between recyclable, compostable and biodegradable
(with thanks to the author Sam Milbrath and www.food.ee)