Waking Up America: The Guise of Coffee Culture and its Harmful Effects

Coffee is a beverage that is globally consumed, but also a product that has different values in different parts of the world. The role coffee plays in society differs around the world, from the farmers who grew the crops to the people who constantly consume them. Social theoretical perspectives are capable of showing the different roles coffee has in different societies. Symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and Marxism are three theories which show coffee’s role sociologically. These theories show how coffee affects people physically, how it affects them emotionally, how it leads them to have interactions, how it connects different parts of society, and how it’s economically controlled by a select few.

Approximately, how many customers do you see in there? It is said that about 15% of the Canadian population visit Tim Horton’s every day. Fresh Facts | Corporate. (2016, July 06). A majority of them probably in there buying a cup of coffee, which means that millions of coffee cups are being used each day. We have a slight problem. Yes, Tim Horton’s cups are recyclable, but it’s only accepted at certain locations. Can the Tim Hortons cup be recycled? (2016, March 18). An article from CBC news stated that Tim Horton's coffee cups were being lined with either wax or plastic preventing the cups to be recycled everywhere but specific blue bins. News, C. (2016, June 21). When you finish your double-double, don't toss your cup in the recycling bin, I think that Tim Horton’s should change up their packaging by eliminating the plastic and wax they placed on their cups and making it environmentally friendly. Including the plastic lids, they use for the cups. I would also make it my first priority to put recycling bins in more areas, because right now, since there are not many blue bins consumers are throwing their cups in the garbage can and that eventually lands up in landfills. If there were more blue bins, Customers will most likely throw their cups in the recycling

The love of coffee has the Australian people drinking 50,000 cups of coffee every half hour and in one year that equals to approximately 3 billion takeaway cups (Sustainability Victoria, 2017). The disposable coffee cups are then disposed of and are going into landfill. According to Richard Fine, from Bio Pak, 90 per cent of disposable coffee cups end in landfill, with an estimated of 62,000 kilograms of plastic waste going into landfill per year (Whyte, 2016). The disposable cups are used for only minutes, however, are in landfill for fifty years (Keep Cup, 2017). Potter (2017) also states in can take up to 50 years to break down.

The Americans consume the most coffee followed by Germany, Japan and France this is not per capita. Americans consume more than a third of the total coffee grown in the whole world. Over 50% of Americans over 18 years of age drink coffee every single day. This signifies over 150 million daily drinkers. 30 million American adults drink specialty coffee beverages daily, which include many different type of coffee

What is your to coffee? Double espresso? Ristretto? Americano? Cappuccino? Well whatever that coffee is, it's most likely to end up being served in a paper cup. The paper cups is a common theme within our society when it comes to our hot beverages. It is a common theme because paper is known to be a recyclable and biodegradable material. Which is a far better option for the environment when compared to the material, plastic. So does that means these coffee paper cup are good for the environment? Unfortunately, no not in this case. These types of paper cups are actually harmful, using up way too many natural resources, energy and polluting the environment, directing harming almost walks of life as well. But how do cups made from biodegradable

When you buy a cup of coffee in Starbucks every morning to keep you awake through the day, do you ever think of the origins of these coffee beans? How much of those three dollars you pay in Starbucks goes to the Farmers? Personally, I’m not a coffee-drinker. But somehow I realize the big sign in front of Java City in the Reitz Union Food Court, which says “Certified Fair Trade Coffee.” I’m surprised how few students know what it means. Currently, farmers in Brazil and Vietnam grow the majority of coffee beans.

According to Harvard’s School of Public Health, 54 percent of Americans over the age of eighteen drink coffee every day. The daily consumption of coffee for Americans is an average of 3.1 (9-ounce) cups. The popular demand for coffee is because caffeine is the key ingredient. Caffeine is used as a kick-start for most people in the morning for an extra energy boost. However, once that feeling of extra energy subsides the human body begins to feel exhausted. A new product that we wish to add to the menu will be an invigorating lemonade. This new product will only be offered during the summer months of June, July, and August. Depending on how well our clients respond to our new drink, we will eventually add to the flavors of lemonade available.

People all over the world wake up to a cup of coffee but is this harmful or beneficial? Research shows that the pros to coffee, at responsible amounts per day, outweigh the cons or negative effects of coffee and even have the same effects as medicines given over the counter at pharmacy or even prescribed by a pharmacist. Many people just drink coffee without even knowing the location of where coffee began but this can be very crucial to the understanding to finding the benefits of coffee.

While there’s constantly growth in the consumption of coffee, the demographics of the drinkers steadily change. Recent studies show that over the last two years, 74 percent of Hispanic-Americans drink coffee daily, that’s more than 12 percent of non-Hispanics. While Hispanic-Americans are drinking more coffee, the younger generation is drinking less. Among ages 18-24, 41 percent said they drank coffee daily, which brings them down from 50 percent in 2012. Despite these changing habits, the consumption of coffee is expected to keep climbing. "We usually flip over new foods, not something that has been around for centuries, But today coffee's got everything going for it, plus a jolt of caffeine that's hard to beat"(Fernau).

Keurig company is one of the leaders and innovators in the single serving coffee pod industry. The innovative method to brewing beverages on an as needed basis in single servings has resulted in a drastic shift in the coffee consumption market. The coffee pod industry has grown extremely rapidly since the late 1990s and companies collectively sell around 13 billion coffee pods per year. However, the success of these companies does have a negative environmental trade off. Many individuals are blindsided by the convenience of these pods, hence do not see the negative environmental affect that these coffee pods have. In 2014, enough K-Cups were sold that if placed end-to-end, they would circle the globe 10.5 times. Almost all of them ended up in landfills. With the increasing demand for these products, the pods are taking up a lot of space in the world’s landfills. Single use coffee pods are mostly made out of a unique mixture of plastic and aluminum which makes them difficult to recycle. Many companies have tried combating this problem by introducing refillable pods to be filled with actual coffee grounds, however, the success of these products hasn’t been nearly as successful as the single serving pods.

To begin, The Coffee Crisis is about an acute coffee crisis and how it threatens millions of small coffee farmers around the world and is putting economic growth, as well as social and political stability, at risk in scores of coffee producing countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. In 2004, the governments of coffee producing countries were considering how to respond to the dramatic decline in coffee prices caused in part by a large increase in coffee production in Brazil and Vietnam. Coffee was the main source of income for roughly 25 million farmers, mostly small land holders, in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Coffee prices had hit 40 year lows in 2001 and had remained

Although, one of the methods that individuals can use is producing drinking cups in a way that will be environmentally friendly. A decision made by humans that will contribute to the logic of being green is participating in the production of paper cups rather than ceramic drinking cups. ”According to one LCA study, it takes 14 megajoules (MJ) of energy to produce one ceramic coffee cup. By contrast, it only takes about 0.4 MJ to produce one paper cup,” (Tinnesand 12). Based on this Life Cycle Assessment study, it shows how producing a paper cup will have better effects than producing ceramic drinking cups. So we may be willing to bear the environmental cost of reducing our use of these products because of other ways they impact our ecosystem,” (Tinnesand 13). According to these two quotes, they both critically show examples of how humans across the planet can do simple tasks to help maintain the planet’s proper health. These two quotes show the benefit of accomplishing environmentally friendly tasks to help maintain the planet’s stability by providing an example of an environmentally beneficial decision and its impact. Another decision that can be made by individuals across the World that will have positive impacts on the environment is the analysis of the type of material used to store beverages. Many containers can be disposable. Although, out of all of the types of material used to manufacture the containers, some will successfully

When it comes to buying coffee, I don’t give it a whole lot of thought. I am not picky when it comes to my coffee, any kind will do. The sole purpose of purchasing it is to give me a boost of caffeine in the morning to start my day. I never really thought too much about how buying a coffee would have any affects on the environment, but being forced to think about it really opens up my eyes. Coffee that people grab on the go will either come in plastic or styrofoam. I will admit that I am guilty of not always properly disposing of these cups in the proper recycling bins, and I have seen first hand that I am not alone. I never really thought about how the amount of coffee that I buy in a given year, and all of the un-recycled plastic and styrofoam could be causing environmental harm. It’s not just the chemicals that these products

I would like to talk about my new company called Coffee & Me. It is a chained coffee shop nationwide. Below is my strategic planning. I will discuss these 8 points. Mission statement, legal structure of business, organization chart or key management, barriers to entry, Core competencies, SWOT, key performance indicators and industry analysis. (Hunger, J. D., & Wheelen, T. L. (2014)

A cup of Joe, Java or brew, it goes by many names. It can be your morning jump-start or as an afternoon pick me up, to be enjoyed alone or with the company of others. It 's a drinkable source of energy that is enjoyed in the United States and in many other places around the globe. Its no wonder that coffee is such a popular commodity. Companies such as Starbucks and Peets’ have revolutionized the coffee shop industry in the US, by making it easy and convenient for consumers to purchase single-serving cups of coffee. Not only is the service quick and convenient but it also allows consumers the ability to personalize their drinks to their desired preference, making it a more enjoyable experience than just having a cup of