At Nestlé Professional, we recognise that coffee isn’t just a beverage — it’s a global passion that fuels businesses and delights consumers. We are committed to 100% responsible coffee sourcing*, supplying it to bustling workplaces, hotels, colleges & universities, hospitals and on-the-go businesses.
NESCAFÉ® Coffee Plan
We believe every cup of NESCAFÉ® can make a difference. That's why sustainability is at the heart of everything we do.
Some of our many sustainability commitments include sourcing coffee responsibly, helping farmers adopt regenerative agricultural practices and improving farmer livelihoods. We're also working to ensure that as much of our NESCAFÉ® coffee packaging as possible is reusable or designed for recycling by the end of 2025.
Rejuvenating Coffee Plants Through Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that aims to improve soil health and fertility as well as protect water resources and biodiversity. To aid responsibly sourced coffee efforts, NESCAFÉ® is rejuvenating coffee plants; either through pruning existing coffee trees or replacing them with disease and climate-change resistant varieties. These new coffee plantlets will help rejuvenate coffee plots and increase yields through higher productivity and quality.
NESCAFÉ® 100% Responsible Sourcing*
Our coffee is traceable to the group of farms where it was grown and verified in accordance to sustainability standards from independent certifier programmes. At NESCAFÉ®, we work with various external programmes who are independent third-party organisations, such as 4C, Rainforest Alliance, which have established their own publicly available sustainability standards.
The sustainability standards of the external programmes we work with, meet our Nestlé Responsible Sourcing Core Requirements, that encompass various aspects of coffee farming, including social and environmental practices, for example farmer's working conditions and optimising soil fertilisers, among others.
Working with Communities
The farmers we work with are key on our sustainability journey and we work with them to adopt regenerative agriculture practices and to improve their livelihoods, including targeted training to facilitate their transition to regenerative practices and the supply of high-yielding coffee plantlets. Through close collaboration, we assess and refine initiatives based on the specific countries where we source our coffee.
But beyond training, at NESCAFÉ® we are piloting financial support programmes. These initiatives aim to boost farmers’ income as they transition to regenerative agriculture. The support includes conditional cash incentives for adopting sustainable practices, weather insurance for income protection, and improved access to credit lines.
Packaging
Our ambition at NESCAFÉ® is to ensure that as close to 100% of our packaging is designed for recycling by 2025.
We are dedicated to working towards all of our packaging being recyclable or reusable, aligning with Nestlé's commitment to sustainable packaging.
Recycle your tins
In line with Nestlé sustainability efforts, our NESCAFÉ® metal tins are fully recyclable. Just pop the lid, peel the foil, and place all 3 in your recycling. More and more people are demanding more than just great tasting coffee, and by choosing to buy and recycle NESCAFÉ® you could help us save packaging from landfill.
- Fully recyclable tin
- Helps save tins from landfill (based on recyclability status of NESCAFÉ tins)
- Most user friendly B2B format in market, with continuous innovation
- Easy to open hinged lid, with ‘click to close’ feature
Recycle your cartons
Our NESCAFÉ® Instant Coffee Sachets cartons are made of cardboard and are recyclable. We're working towards creating recyclable sachets.
Coffee Machine units made from 100% recycled materials, including used coffee grounds
Our NESCAFÉ® commercial coffee machine freestanding furniture units are made from 100% recycled materials, including used coffee grounds.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Regenerative agriculture also contributes to drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and storing more carbon in the soil. NESCAFÉ® aims to contribute to halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It will work with farmers, suppliers and partners to help protect agricultural lands, enhance biodiversity and help prevent deforestation. In line with Nestlé coffee sustainability ideals, NESCAFÉ® intends to help farmers plant more than 20 million trees at or near their coffee farms.
*100% figure refers to our yearly green coffee usage in factories across Europe