A couple of weeks ago I came home and found a brand new Nespresso coffee machine on the kitchen bench, courtesy of my little brother!
Now I have been making use of this machine, serving up delicious coffees for myself and my families, and thoroughly enjoying the frothy deliciousness of these coffees - and today, they taste even better, as I just discovered that Nespresso has a capsule recycling program!
Nespresso has tried to establish itself as a 'green' brand, and greenie (and hottie!) George Clooney is on the Nespresso Sustainability Board (I'm actually impressed they even have a sustainability board) who aims to improve farmer welfare and environmental sustainability.
Now to you, fellow Nespressians, or whatever we are called, recycling is easy! Just place your coffee capsules in the Recycling Canister, on sale from Nespresso for $29.00, or the empty cake mix box found for free in my recycling bin, take them to your local Nespresso boutique (where you go to buy new capsules anyway) and dispose of them at the collection point. Smile, feel green, buy new coffee, and go home and treat yourself.
While you are enjoying your coffee, those recycled pods are being separated the coffee grounds are used as fertiliser, and the aluminium is melted down and recycled - even used in some Nespresso machines.
Pretty neat and pretty easy!
Nespresso has developed a video that shows the process of recycling pods here: http://www.nespresso.com/ecolaboration/au/en/article/2/2910/introducing-nespresso-s-capsule-recycling-program-in-australia.html
Coffee time!
What a great idea!
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