If coffee pods are part of your daily routine, chances are you regularly have a lot of empty pods among your rubbish. Convenience shouldn’t come at the cost of our beautiful planet. Now you can have your coffee pods and recycle them too!
Most coffee pods contain four materials: plastic, aluminium, a paper filter and organic material in the form of coffee grounds. All four materials can generally be separated, sorted and recycled responsibly.
If that’s too messy for your liking, some coffee pod brands have their own recycling schemes, where they will collect used pods from your home, or you can take them to back to the shop where you purchased them from.
And households across the UK can now recycle their Nespresso, NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto, Tassimo, L’OR and Starbucks at Home coffee pods using one recycling scheme.
‘Podback’ is a first of its kind recycling programme for coffee pods set up by Nestlé and Jacobs Douwe Egberts UK.
Consumers can recycle their Nespresso, NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto, Tassimo, L’OR and Starbucks at Home coffee pods in two ways:
If there isn’t a recycling scheme near you, please put coffee pods in your general waste bin.
Did you know you can buy reusable coffee pods? An online search will provide all the information you need about which brands provide reusable options.
Coffee grounds have many practical uses around the home and garden. They can be used a fertilizer in the garden or add them to your compost heap if you have one. An online search will also provide several, more unusual, uses for used coffee grounds such as odour neutralising, skin exfoliating and scouring pots and pans!
