10,000 coffee cups daily end up ‘on a big mountain of rubbish’

Looking at the chart of ‘coffee consumption by country’ at the World Population Review website – a slightly random chart, topped by Luxembourg and featuring such unexpected names as Belize and Laos in the top 10 – one finds Cyprus in 15th position.

Our annual consumption of 13.28kg of coffee per capita puts us in the world’s top 15, being nearly five times the figure of, for instance, the UK (admittedly a tea-drinking nation), which consumes 2.68kg per capita.

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