Creating our Sustainable Christmas Window: The starting points for our ‘Winter Wonderland’ Christmas window this year were, ‘plastic-free’ and ‘reduce, re-use, recycle.’ As a business promoting sustainability we wanted to highlight the waste we create during the Christmas season. We resolved to buy nothing new, make decorations from our recycle and reuse decorations from…
Which Reusable Cup Should You Buy? The awareness of the impact that single-use plastic has on our planet has, in the last few years become widely acknowledged. With individuals and businesses looking to reduce the amount of disposable plastic that they are responsible for there has been a rise in the availability of alternatives with…
Creating the St Ives Cornwall Chilly’s Bottle Cornish Gems and The Coffee Lounge are so excited at the introduction of the St Ives Cornwall Chilly’s bottle. Designed by local artist and Coffee Lounge manager, Emma Fashokun. The St Ives Cornwall Chilly’s bottle features an engraved view of the historic harbour that is so recognisable to…
Why Choose an Independent Coffee Shop? If you’re out for the day and looking for a caffeine fix, it’s so easy to follow the familiar logos to one of the many chain coffee branches. Here are five reasons to look a little further and try an independent coffee shop. Customer service and local connections. At…
How we can be more sustainable in 2019 How we can be more sustainable in 2019 as a business and individual. In The Coffee Lounge, we are always striving to reduce our carbon footprint and look after the beautiful environment in which we work. Last year we set ourselves a goal of reducing what we…
A Sustainable Cornish Christmas In the Coffee Lounge we are always striving to be as sustainable as possible and this year we’ve applied that to our Christmas decorations! We started with a theme of, ‘Snowflakes’ and focused on using solely paper decorations in store and as window dressing. With pom-poms, origami snowflakes and snowflake doilies we…
The Green Tourism Award At The Coffee Lounge, we have always been conscious of our environmental responsibility. We were recently awarded the bronze level Green Tourism Award and are committed to working towards greater sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint. We are working towards a #plasticfreestives in several ways. We use plastic alternatives that are…
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