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The coffee company Nespresso has announced [ambitious / ambitiously] new plans to help make its operations more sustainable. The company is a [bland / brand] name of the Nestlé group of companies. It makes and sells espresso coffee machines and the single-use [container / containers] of coffee needed for the [device / crevice] . Its new [initiative / initiation] on sustainability is called 'The Positive Cup'. This aims to [source / sauce] one of its ranges of coffee through totally sustainable methods, while helping some of the world's [poverty / poorest] coffee farmers. It will [invest / ingest] just over $16 million in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan. A company spokesperson said it, "aims to [protect / protract] the future of the highest quality coffees and [secure / security] the livelihoods of the farmers that grow them".

A main [compartment / component] of the campaign is to recycle all of the aluminium capsules used in the machines. The company will [collate / collect] the capsules "wherever the company [does / doing] business" and "increase recycling rates". The company also said it would become "100 per cent carbon [natural / neutral] " by 2020 by planting trees to [compensate / compensation] for its carbon footprint. CEO Jean-Marc Duvoisin said: "Our sustainability [approach / reproach] has always been designed to do more than simply minimise [implants / impacts] ." Hollywood actor George Clooney said: "The investment…in South Sudan's coffee [sector / vector] , even while the conflict is [ongoing / oncoming] , is providing much-needed income for hundreds of farmers and their families [living / loving] in coffee communities."


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