George Clooney helped make the coffee pod glamorous.
Unfortunately, the estimated 30 billion pods going into landfill every year are considerably less glamorous.
Sofia Kalfa spent almost 20 years working with companies including Dell, PepsiCo, Wayfair and CRH.
She then brought that corporate experience into Fzin Coffee, a growing Cork business taking on some of the biggest names in the global coffee industry.
Fzin has developed an independently certified, bio-based and home-compostable coffee capsule that can go into a home compost heap, food bin, flowerpot or garden rather than joining the plastic and aluminium mountain.
But this is not simply a sustainability story.
Sofia explains:
There is also palm-oil-free drinking chocolate, coffee syrups moved from plastic into glass, grants, exports, rural Ireland, a Cork-via-Greece accent and a small Irish business refusing to wait for the giant competitors to change first.
In HIRE IN A HEARTBEAT, Sofia chooses former Glanbia Group Managing Director and current CRH board member Siobhán Talbot — and offers her a completely blank sheet of paper.
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