Nespresso Pods

[Levo-Lon]

Don’t think you can recycle Nespresso pods. Combination of metal and plastic or something, dunno tbh. But fairly sure that even if Nesprsso take them back, they just incinerate them.
We stopped using Nespresso a few years ago, seemed so wasteful, bought ourselves a Sage Barista and it’s been fantastic. Couldn’t live without it.

Do you mean our great Hollywood humanitarian saviour of the planet is just an over paid money grabbing #£?#-&, well im shocked at his material bullshyte waffleness

 

[EltonFrog]

Don’t think you can recycle Nespresso pods. Combination of metal and plastic or something, dunno tbh. But fairly sure that even if Nesprsso take them back, they just incinerate them.
We stopped using Nespresso a few years ago, seemed so wasteful, bought ourselves a Sage Barista and it’s been fantastic. Couldn’t live without it.

https://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/how-to-recycle-coffee-capsules

The pods are aluminium and are infinitely recyclable.

 

[Cycleops]

https://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/how-to-recycle-coffee-capsules

The pods are aluminium and are infinitely recyclable.

I wonder how many will actually bother?

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Don’t think you can recycle Nespresso pods. Combination of metal and plastic or something, dunno tbh. But fairly sure that even if Nesprsso take them back, they just incinerate them.
We stopped using Nespresso a few years ago, seemed so wasteful, bought ourselves a Sage Barista and it’s been fantastic. Couldn’t live without it.

Is a Sage Barista someone who makes coffee for a living as is wise in the ways of the world?

If so, I bet you get great coffee and conversation, but would imagine the food and board costs rack up after a while.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The 2.5k coffee machine at work makes nice coffee.
The residents all like it.

I service it. Its just got 3 pods that you fill with dried coffee powdered milk a chocolate powder.
No environmental waste, if the box and foil packaging go in the right waste bins.

Nice thing about it is you eliminate pretentious coffee ordering types and queues

 

[fossyant]

Aldi do Nespresso apparently:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/coffee-pods
I use their beans in my Gaggia coffee machine and find they're pretty good

They also do Dolce Gusto as well now - nice coffee.

With the re-useable pods, you don't quite get the creme, but with finely ground coffee packed tight, it's close.

 

[EltonFrog]

I wonder how many will actually bother?

I’ve no idea, I don’t use it but the Fragrant MrsP uses it a lot and is conscientious about storing and recycling the pods, nesspresso make it easy, they supply bags to store the used pods which are collected when the online order is delivered.

 

[Proto]

https://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/how-to-recycle-coffee-capsules

The pods are aluminium and are infinitely recyclable.

Possible but not easy, it would seem. And aluminium is a very energy hungry material to start with.

From the Huffington Post:
“Most coffee pods need specialist recycling schemes – leading capsule coffee company Nespresso told HuffPost UK that an estimated 21% of their pods are currently recycled, with the remainder going to landfill or being incinerated.”

 

[vickster]

Possible but not easy, it would seem. And aluminium is a very energy hungry material to start with.

From the Huffington Post:
“Most coffee pods need specialist recycling schemes – leading capsule coffee company Nespresso told HuffPost UK that an estimated 21% of their pods are currently recycled, with the remainder going to landfill or being incinerated.”

That’s down to consumers not returning them presumably? Not Nespresso binning the ones they receive back

 

[dodgy]

We used to have a Nespresso machine, we loved it so much that we would take it on holiday (we go by car ) to enjoy decent coffee first thing in the morning. But over time we tired of the cost of the pods and the environmental impact did weigh on our minds.
So we bought a Delonghi bean to cup machine, it cost double what the Nespresso cost, but in less than a year we broke even and not long after that it's paid for itself. Beans are cheap and available everywhere, even in a tatty corner shop.
Finally, the coffee is better.

 

[vickster]

We used to have a Nespresso machine, we loved it so much that we would take it on holiday (we go by car ) to enjoy decent coffee first thing in the morning. But over time we tired of the cost of the pods and the environmental impact did weigh on our minds.
So we bought a Delonghi bean to cup machine, it cost double what the Nespresso cost, but in less than a year we broke even and not long after that it's paid for itself. Beans are cheap and available everywhere, even in a tatty corner shop.
Finally, the coffee is better.

Which Delonghi machine do you have as a friend is looking for one?

 

[Fnaar]

I always use my trusty macchinetta

 

[srw]

That’s down to consumers not returning them presumably? Not Nespresso binning the ones they receive back

On the other hand, 90% of the waste products of our coffee habit are directly composted - the remaining 10% (from the cafetiere) being indirectly composted via the sewage system (yes, I know).

Using a pod system closes you off to a world of different coffee flavours, as well as being a disastrous use of scarce natural resources.

 

[TheDoctor]

Aluminium pods are hardly a waste. Al is easy to recycle, and something like 75% of all Al ever produced is still in use - Source
It's energy-intensive to refine from ore, but not to recycle.

 

[fossyant]

Using a pod system closes you off to a world of different coffee flavours, as well as being a disastrous use of scarce natural resources.

Not if you use the re-useable pods. I got some because I picked up a selection pack of Whittard coffees in the January sales. We use the pod machine for a quick 'good' cuppa, but we still use the stove top pot. The coffee grinds from the re-useable pods go straight into the compost.