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Story and Photos by David DeCandia
Pure Ceylon Tea
True Sustainability Part III
Our three-part series on Sri Lanka, written by David DeCandia, director of tea at the coffee and tea shop chain Coffee Bean
and Tea Leaf and the first Ceylon Tea Ambassador to North America appointed by the Sri Lanka Tea Board, has focused on the three
pillars of sustainability. Part one of our series examined the social aspect of sustainability, while part two discussed environmental
sustainability as it relates to Sri Lanka’s tea industry. In part three, DeCandia will explain economic sustainability as it concerns to Sri
Lanka’s tea industry from the perspective of a tea buyer and as Ceylon Tea Ambassador. He will also show how all three pillars must
be in balance for there to be true sustainability.
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