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> but were too troublingly wasteful for me Were you unable to recycle your pods?

• maccard 6y ago
  Recycling should be a last resort, and it's a marketing effort by Nespresso to make them seem cleaner than they are. In reality, they sell small dose (5g) coffee in plastic lined aluminium, in non-recyclable coated cardboard. Despite their claims of how green they are, only 30% of their pods are recycled [0] [0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/most-nespresso-coffee-pods-not-being-recycled/11708910 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/most-nespresso-coffee...
  • peteretep 6y ago
    This seems to be such a mean take as to almost feel disingenuous — the low recycling figure is down to consumers not returning pods. I do return pods, so presumably nearly 100% of the pods I use are recycled. Cardboard is biodegradeable. I’m unsure why you feel the need to point out the pods are plastic lined.
    • maccard 6y ago
      If customers aren't returning pods, what are they doing with them? Cardboard is biodegradable, but waxed cardboard is lined with plastic meaning it needs to be handled separately, and if your recycling center doesn't handle it, it goes in the trash where it doesn't biodegrade because it's coated in plastic. The reason the plastic lined pods are important is because it means you can't just chuck them in your household recycling, they have to be sent back to Nespresso. Anyone who doesn't send them back to Nespresso is throwing them in the trash, or throwing them in household recycling, where they're separated from and put in regular waste.