At only 8 square miles, Nauru uses a lot of bottles, mostly for drinking water – 20,000 per month (according to the Nauru Country Study Guide by Ibp USA). That’s 240,000 bottles a year. According to the same study, about 10% of the bottles are used to sell water or iced coffee in a localized recycling effort.
So, in the spirit of Nauru, if you have some extra plastic bottles or tubs (yes, tubs) laying around, feel free to fill them up with coffee.
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At only 8 square miles, Nauru uses a lot of bottles, mostly for drinking water – 20,000 per month (according to the Nauru Country Study Guide by Ibp USA). That’s 240,000 bottles a year. According to the same study, about 10% of the bottles are used to sell water or iced coffee in a localized recycling effort.
So, in the spirit of Nauru, if you have some extra plastic bottles or tubs (yes, tubs) laying around, feel free to fill them up with coffee.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups ground coffee
- 2 quarts water
- 2 quarts milk , to be added during serving
- sugar , to taste
Servings: gallon
Units:
Instructions
- First, find a large glass container to brew the coffee. I used a large flour canister. Pour in the coffee grounds… the yummiest you can find. Next splash on a crystal stream of water. You can use room temperature, from the tap, or filtered. Depends how fancy pants you want to be.
- There will be some settling after five minutes. Give it a stir, cover and let sit at room temperature for about 8 hours.
- Filter the coffee. I ladled it through a coffee filter sitting inside a strainer. Since there is so much coffee, I changed the filter a few times, being sure to squeeze out the grounds to get all the good stuff. This worked great! You can refrigerate the coffee at this point and sip on it all week.
- Now, for the fun. To serve, pour the coffee over ice. Only go halfway up the glass. Fill the other half with chilled, creamy milk. Sprinkle in sugar, to taste. Give it a stir.
Recipe Notes
Makes 1 gallon or 1/2 gallon of black iced coffee.