Need a quick, easy caffeine fix? One of the world's most popular, fastest and simplest ways to get your coffee intake is Nespresso. Nespresso and their competitors have hundreds of thousands of consumers around the world, yet so few of them are aware of the amount of damage that these capsules are causing to the environment.
These pods are not biodegradable as they are made from aluminium and plastic. Although it is just ~1g of aluminium per capsule, it adds up, as the average person has 2 cups of coffee a day. In most countries aluminium can be recycled but all the coffee granules need to be removed from the capsule before it is compressed and recycled. As a result these capsules end up in our landfills creating tonnes of waste making them environmentally irresponsible.
Sadly, the amount of people who own Nespresso machines and are not aware that they need to recycle the capsules is outstanding. What's more is there are consumers who are aware that they should recycle the pods yet still don't. Can you blame them? The time and equipment required to recycle the capsule takes away from the whole quick and easy coffee fix that coffee capsules are all about.
There has to be a better way...