Costa serves up 'zero energy' coffee

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Company moves from flat white to deep green with new sustainable store in Telford

Costa Coffee has opened the UK's "first zero energy coffee shop building" in a bid to explore how it can make its outlets more environmentally sustainable. The test-bed "Eco-Pod" at the Wrekin Retail...

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