Recycling of aluminium coffee capsules, in France, is rapidly increasing with the right public awareness and behaviour towards reusing, reflecting both progress and persistent challenges in sorting practices. A survey of 1,977 users taken between November 20 and December 9, 2025, revealed that a...
Instead of recycling, millions of worn-out coffee capsules and other minuscule aluminium items are deemed to pose crucial environmental challenges. Loss of these aluminium items mainly happens when they undergo the conventional sorting systems, which then ends up in the waste. For this, a new...
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In Grande Prairie, Alberta, Nespresso Canada has introduced its Green Bag recycling programme. Through collaboration with Aquatera Utilities Inc., Nespresso Club members who live in the City of Grande Prairie will now have access to this recycling solution. The first municipality in Alberta to use...
Novo Capsule, a Switzerland-based joint venture, is the pioneer in producing aluminium coffee pods compatible with Nespresso machines that leave a smaller carbon footprint and have almost 8 per cent increasing demand in the near future due to its sustainability quotient. No wonder Novo Capsule is...
Conwy County Borough Council joins hands with Crest, UK’s central securities depository, to implement the ‘Podback’ coffee pod recycling scheme, which helps consumers return used plastic or aluminium coffee pods via a kerbside collection drive. Podback is a nationwide programme that receives...
Headquartered in London, CafePod, to bring the experience of flavoured coffee to a user’s resident, has decided to supplement its Nespresso® compatible pod range with three new exquisite blends. For the first time, CafePod made its coffee pods with 80 per cent recycled aluminium which can be 100...
The recycling sector has seen a sudden boom in the past few years with major companies turning towards sustainability. Mitchell Avenue’s Weston Aluminium suffered a grave trauma on July 12 as molten aluminium was spilt at the Kuri Kuri smelter, later to be controlled by state firefighters. It is a...
To introduce customers to the sustainability concept, Nespresso has announced a Recycling Rewards programme, where any user returning 100 used capsules of any brand would receive special gift items in exchange. The customers who return the pods will receive one from either of the products quoted...
Podback, a Nestle and Jacobs Douwe Egberts joint venture in the U.K. is the first cross-industry alliance for the coffee consuming sector in the west. The Podback scheme was launched in 2021 and allows coffee pods from brands including Nespresso, Nescafé, and Tassimo to be recycled when customers...
Podback has teamed up with ODS and Oxford City Council to allow residents to recycle their coffee pods using their kerbside recycling collection service. Oxford residents can recycle both plastic and aluminium coffee pods using free collection bags provided by Podback, which will commence on 9th...
In a briskly booming market, the world's largest pure-play coffee and Tea Company by revenue, JDE Peet’s is injecting €110 million at its French production site, in Andrézieux Bouthéon, in order to raise 60% of aluminium coffee capsules production. The company while keeping its dynamic activity the...
Datwyler has signed new contract to extend its current partnership with Nespresso. The agreement includes capsules and seals production for portioned coffee product lines. The new contract is valid until 2030. Datwyler invests in the manufacturing capacity expansion and strengthens its the highly...
Nestlé and Jacobs Douwe Egberts UK (JDE UK, part of the JDE Peet’s Group) have teamed up to create Podback: a first of its kind recycling programme for coffee pods. The scheme, which will launch in early 2021, will cover brands such as Nespresso, Nescafé Dolce Gusto and Tassimo. The companies will...
Nespresso and the UNSW Smart Centre have found new ways to use polymer-laminated aluminium packaging (PLAP) materials. They have discovered a new way to use PLAP materials in steel making. The new idea comes with more widespread applications impacting Australia’s aluminum recycling and smelting...
illycaffè teamed up with TerraCycle for the collection and recycling of its plastic Iperespresso capsules and aluminium capsules. The partnership launched in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Austria, The Netherlands, and Belgium. The consumers will be able to have used capsules picked up at home...
Continente has announced the launch of its aluminium coffee capsules. The new ranges are available in four variants - Decaffeinate, Seducent, Ristretto and Possente. Aluminium coffee capsules will also help in reducing carbon footprint. These capsules are compatible with Nespresso machines. These...
Nespresso commits that every cup of Nespresso coffee will be carbon neutral by 2022. The company achieved carbon neutrality in its business operations since 2017. Nespresso will now tackle emissions that occur in its supply chain and product life cycle. "Climate change is a reality and our future...
Nespresso Canada announced two new sustainability initiatives that are part of the company's sustainable development approach: the launch of new capsules made using 80% recycled aluminium and new fully recyclable boxes made from 95% recycled material for its machines. The company plans to have both...
The new non-profit organization ‘Swiss Aluminum Capsule Recycling’ is an initiative of Nespresso and the Migros coffee roastery Delica AG to contribute to the sustainability of portioned coffee. The two companies are committed to a uniform and efficient recycling solution for aluminium coffee...
Novelis Inc., the world leader in aluminium rolling and recycling, on 17 th August’20, declared that it has partnered with Nespresso, the pioneer of premium portioned coffee, to roll-out the first coffee capsule made from 80% recycled aluminium. The highly recycled, a sustainable alloy is featured...
