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title: How can coffee be “green”? Choose flexible refill pouches and refill!
description: Reduce the materials needed to create the packaging for your next coffee; reuse the rigid container  and recycle the flexible pouch.
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# [How can coffee be “green”? Choose flexible refill pouches and refill!](https://gualapack.com/news/how-can-coffee-be-green)

 Written by [Guala Pack](https://gualapack.com/news/author/guala-pack) | May 24, 2023

Turn your daily cup of coffee into an opportunity to do the right thing for the environment. An airtight container made of glass or metal is a common packaging to store ground beans and keep them fresh over time. But rigid containers have a much higher impact than flexible pouches. What’s the solution? **Use the flexible pouch to refill the rigid container, of course!**

 

Flexible packaging reduces the resources used, the environmental cost of transport, and the waste that ultimately ends up in the landfills. It’s also easy to recycle, [with options like Gualapack’s Pouch5](https://gualapack.com/recyclable-pouches?hsLang=en) that can be sorted directly in the PP stream. 

What’s more, the rigid container remains useful in your home instead of being thrown away. 

This is one way you can **easily follow the reduce, reuse, recycle mantra**! Reduce the materials needed to create the packaging for your next coffee; reuse the rigid container you already have, indefinitely; and recycle the flexible pouch so it re-enters the production cycle, and replaces virgin material. 

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