What a difference recycling makes when coffee bean sacks from around the world are sewn into purses whose sales feed hungry children.

How You Brewin’ Internet Café, in Surf City and Barnegat Light, is the only New Jersey retailer of the trendy “Know Hope” line made by a family’s growing cottage industry in rural Ohio.

Shop owners Dan and Lori Malay saw the wearables at the coffee trade show in New York. They were attracted by the purses’sharp looks, but mostly by the idea that they raise money that is providing meals in Mexico and Africa as well as America.

It was the first time that I Know Hope owner Connie Baker had come from Fairfieldin western Ohio to the trade show since…