Space: The Final Coffee Frontier
For paid subscribers: From the preposterous tech startup that wanted to roast coffee in space to espresso on the International Space Station, there’s a lot of coffee up there.
Microplastics are scaaaaaaaary 🎃🎃🎃☕
An investigation finds child labor on Rainforest Alliance-certified coffee farms in Mexico, former executives at Luckin Coffee are trying their luck (sorry) with a new venture, and more evidence that takeaway coffee cups leach microplastics.
Read the full Roundup on Fresh Cup Magazine:
Look out for a new article this Friday, and in the meantime it’s goodbye from me and Merlin:

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