LIFE CYCLE OF A STARBUCKS COFFEE

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DISPOSAL

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During extraction, billions of pounds of reddish pulp, known as the coffee cherry are left over after the coffee beans are extracted from their shells.

Some discarded pulp is used to make tea, some is worked back into the soil as fertilizer, but most of it piles up around coffee mills and pollutes nearby waterways.

On an average starbucks dumps over 100,000 gallons of unsold coffee each day.

CONSUMPTION

LIFE CYCLE OF A STARBUCKS COFFEE

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On an average Starbucks sells 4 million cups of coffee a day.

Starbucks coffee is consumed widely throughout the world.

There are many varieties of coffee’s that people consume.

Since people in different regions have different taste, starbucks has taken the initiative to customize their coffee’s to match each region's taste and flavor.

Each starbucks coffee in a region has its own variety of flavours to satisfy their customers.

DISTRIBUTION

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After being harvested and naturally or man made processed, the coffee beans are shipped from the foreign countries where the beans are grown to the us for roasting.

After being roasted the coffee beans are trucked to all the closer starbucks stores in the us and shipped to other regions and countries.

PRODUCTION

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KUSUMA

Coffee cherries are plucked by hand from the tree and are processed.

Through the natural method, the coffee cherries are allowed to dry in the trees or on the ground before the beans are removed by hauling.

Through the washed method, the beans are immediately separated from their cherries using a pulper and transported to fermentation.

Next they are dried using mechanical dryers, or out on a drying patio and then the coffee beans are put in large burlap sacks in preparation for delivery to the roasting process.

Freshly harvested coffee beans are typically heated and roasted to bring out the signature dark colours and bold flavours which starbucks is famous for.

After being roasted the coffee beans are melted to make different kinds of coffee, and are proportionately added to specific types of coffee recipe's they have.

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EXTRACTION

The Starbucks coffee beans are extracted from Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Countries like Costa-rica, Colombia and Indonesia are where coffee beans grow.

Starbucks reserve Coffees originate from many different countries as well including Hawaii, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica and Kenya.

Farmers plant coffee seeds that turn into a coffee tree.

Farmers grow trees in nurseries that hold coffee cherries within which these coffee beans are extracted out of.