Planetary Design

Planetary Design makes Airscape coffee-storage canisters and promotes a refill programme that pairs reusable canisters with cotton refill bags. The useful idea is simple: buy coffee from a participating roaster, refill the same bag, and transfer the beans into a canister at home rather than taking a new disposable coffee bag each time. Its air-displacing storage design is intended to help preserve freshness; keeping coffee fresh can also help avoid throwing it away. On its sustainability page, the company reports in-house composting and recycling and support for local initiatives. We recommend the repeat-use approach: keep the container in service and refill locally where possible. Cotton bags and canisters still require resources to manufacture, so their environmental benefit depends on repeated use; the page does not provide an independently verified lifecycle comparison or quantified waste savings. Read the company’s sustainability practices: https://planetarydesign.com/pages/sustainability-practices