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 stylish, elegant Nespresso ® shops opening up throughout the country, it appears the coffee pod industry is growing! However have you considered where all your pod waste is ending up?

A lot of pods, consisting of Nespresso ® are made from plastic and aluminium. If sorted and recycled properly, they aren't biodegradable and can just be recycled. However these pods can't be recycled easily because of their mix of plastic and aluminium products.

Sure ... Nespresso ® do offer a pod recycling scheme but it seems few people are in fact using it. Nespresso ® will not even publish their recycling figures so one can only presume these recycling stats are horrendous!

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

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 disturbing figure is likely to increase.
 

Video: Sustainable and Nespresso Pods by Moving Beans.
 

Previous Nespresso ® employer and developer of the Nespresso ® pods now explain them as a 'awful mistake".

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

We are seeing lots of new compostable pods struck the racks which is a terrific news and offers us a twinkle of hope. I can't however 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 world if you have learn't anything from enjoying BBC 2's Blue Planet. Therefore highlighting the significance to lower intake, single use plastics and waste.

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

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