Coffee capsules produce a lot of waste, to be sure. Still, when you take the full life cycle of coffee production and consumption into account they're better than most other methods. (From 2019)
Since 2010, Nespresso has been making its own fully-recyclable aluminium capsules, but just like with L'Or plastic capsules, there’s a catch: people have to return them to Nespresso to be processed at the company's own recycling factory. That’s because Nespresso capsules are not pure aluminium, which is widely recycled — they have silicon lining, so the capsules need a bespoke recycling process.
In 2017, Nespresso ran a six-month pilot recycling project with the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The company gave 190,000 residents special purple bags to collect their used Nespresso capsules for pick-up during the council’s regular recycling rounds. Similarly, in March 2019, the companywith the New York City Department of Sanitation and Sims Municipal Recycling to improve recycling rates.
Colonna-Dashwood says that while Nespresso’s recycling factory is top-notch, the hassle and burden placed on customers means that adoption rates are not as high as they could be. But even with his company's own aluminium capsules that can be thrown into your regular household recycling bin, coffee from each capsule has to be emptied first.
“Coffee capsule companies claim their products are recyclable, and they are right. The problem is that they are not well collected, and their recycling is complicated,” Barczak says, so many coffee drinker don't bother. A refundable deposit fee might incentivise more people to return the capsules, but that’s not currently built into the business model of Nespresso or its competitors.
Still, Colonna-Dashwood thinks that if Nespresso and other companies were all to switch to recyclable aluminium capsules, it may be easier to convince consumers to chuck the waste coffee into the home compost bin and throw the capsule into the recycling one. And that, according to his and Hill's research, would be the best option in terms of the environmental footprint — always with the exception of instant coffee, which fares best in all life-cycle assessment studies.
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