Nespresso teams with Royal Mail in bid to boost coffee capsule recycling

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.edie.net/nespresso-teams-wi ... recycling/

Nespresso drinkers in the UK will be able to return their used coffee capsules for recycling, free of charge, through Royal Mail.

Nespresso teams with Royal Mail in bid to boost coffee capsule recycling

Nespresso and Royal Mail have forged a new partnership to boost collection rates of the aluminium pods used to house Nespresso products, which 42% of Nespresso consumers have told the brand they find confusing to recycle.

Customers will, from today (16 October), be able to arrange a free doorstop collection for coffee pods with Royal Mail, using the courier’s existing returns service. Collections can be made even when customers are not home. Customers can either print their own returns label or request for their postal worker to print and attach a label on their behalf.

Alternatively, coffee pods can be packaged up and taken to any of Royal Mail’s 14,000+ drop-off locations.

Nespresso UK and Ireland’s chief executive Anna Lundstorm said: “Our official partnership with Royal Mail brings recycling to the heart of the community, no matter where you live in the UK.

“Recycling needs to be convenient, simple, and sustainable – and our partnership with Royal Mail is central to achieving that vision.”

Coffee capsule conundrum

Nespresso’s coffee capsules are aluminium – a material which can technically be recycled infinitely. The brand now incorporates 80% recycled aluminium content in its capsules.

Nonetheless, coffee capsules are not collected by most local councils in the UK with household recycling as their lightweight nature can make separation challenging in most traditional mechanical recycling plants.

A further challenge is the thin fabric filter found in many capsule designs, which needs to be separated out.

With that in mind, Nespresso co-founded a not-for-profit coffee pod recycling service called Podback. This launched in 2021 and collects capsules from a variety of brands through a mix of drop-off points including Nespresso Boutiques.

This summer, supermarket Morrisons trialled the addition of Podback collection points to 29 of its stores.

[BenacreNick]

What are we supposed to do with them we we return to the office, presumably throw them in the rubbish bin ?

[ted_e_bear]

Had one last week, collection on delivery with label, easy enough as they get left on the doorstep for us to collect and stick label on, Nespresso provide the bags for the customer to put them in, the guy said Yodel used to collect them so presumably RM offered a lower price to get the contract.

[SMS1969]

Had 5 bags of these to collect last week , had labels for them , easy enough I guess, unless you get multiple pick ups.

[Moose67]

Will be collecting green and black bins every other week nexre

[DirtyHarry]

So, that's what that s**t is.
Royal Mail is a wank stain of a company. It really is.

[ebbzie]

So, that's what that s**t is.
Royal Mail is a wank stain of a company. It really is.

What an odd comment.

[Tman]

Odd? More like nonsensical.

[funkflex55]

Green agenda. Look at us collecting these Nespresso cartridges. Saving the whales and repairing the ozone layer. Oh that, that's a 15 year old Diesel van. Greener than grass that, all that soot feeds the plants.

[Mr Rush]

Green agenda. Look at us collecting these Nespresso cartridges. Saving the whales and repairing the ozone layer. Oh that, that's a 15 year old Diesel van. Greener than grass that, all that soot feeds the plants.

Once they roll out the new fleet we can put those cartridges in the Mr Fusion to power the flux capacitor - which is what makes completing duties possible.

[guardianangel]

Great idea just wish they'd give you some extra time to do all this extra work,had 3 bags for 1 house today so couldn't put them in my pouch so wasted time having to go back to get them, also i had 4 other collections all oversized im sure they are getting bigger it wont be long before we won't have time to deliver any mail im slowly becoming the local post office ,im surprised we haven't been given stamps to sell yet,jeez where do they get these clueless bosses these days.

[funkflex55]

Green agenda. Look at us collecting these Nespresso cartridges. Saving the whales and repairing the ozone layer. Oh that, that's a 15 year old Diesel van. Greener than grass that, all that soot feeds the plants.

Once they roll out the new fleet we can put those cartridges in the Mr Fusion to power the flux capacitor - which is what makes completing duties possible.

Oh yes, the new service. Tracked minus 24, it comes the day before you ordered it! Next day service just isn't good enough, customers want their items yesterday. We now offer that service, Tracked minus 24 ©

https://www.google.com/search?q=curly+h ... ZM&vssid=l

That massive link shows our new CEO.

[N|M]

i was starting to wonder why i was finding single used pod in yorks ... now i know why

[enskied]

Collecting Coffee capsules from those poor young thing that haven't got the means to get on the housing ladder...

[Deadly]

Apparently the bags are bursting open in the parcel sorting machines and are causing chaos.