Here is why Coffee Pods Are An Ecological Disaster

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What with George Clooney ending up being the face of Nespresso and hundreds of trendy, elegant Nespresso ® stores opening up throughout the country, it appears the coffee pod industry is expanding! Have you thought about where all your pod waste is ending up?

The majority of pods, including Nespresso ® are made from plastic and aluminium. If sorted and recycled properly, they aren't naturally degradable and can just be recycled. These capsules can't be recycled quickly because of their mix of plastic and aluminium products.

Sure ... Nespresso ® do offer a pod recycling scheme but it appears not many of us are really using it. Nespresso ® won't even release their recycling figures so one can just presume these recycling data are horrendous!

If they aren't being recycled then where do they go? That's best folks, land fill! The shocking news is that coffee pods can take up to 500 years to break down in landfill.

So Just How Many Pods End Up In Landfill?

It's approximated up to a billion pods go to land fill every year and with pod sales increasing year on year, this troubling figure is likely to increase.

Previous Nespresso ® employer and inventor of the Nespresso ® pods now describe them as a 'awful error".

Video: Sustainable and Nespresso Pods by Moving Beans.

It's thought about so devastating to the Government in Hamburg that is has placed a ban on all single usage coffee pods, calling it 'unneeded resource intake and waste generation'.
Compostable Coffee Pods

We are seeing lots of new compostable pods hit the shelves which is a fantastic news and gives us a glimmer of hope. I can't but assist feel this is still a lot of production, waste and product (albeit compostable waste) for every small single 6g serving of coffee.

It really does highlight the terrible result that plastic pollution is having on our planet if you have learn't anything from seeing BBC 2's Blue Planet. Hence highlighting the importance to lower intake, single use plastics and waste.

Let's make a change. We just have one planet and so let's save it, together.

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