There are enough coffee pods buried to circle the earth 12 times, but Nespresso is fighting the problem with its pod recycling program.
About a third of Americans own a single-serve coffee machine, but this popularity in single-cup coffee is posing an environmental burden. There are enough coffee pods buried to circle the earth more than a couple dozen times.
Nespresso is one of the two leading single-serve coffee manufacturers in the world. The company developed a recycling facility for its coffee pods to combat the problem.Nespresso is the first single-serve coffee company to develop a facility dedicated to recycling their own coffee pods. Why?Single-serve coffee machines are really popular. About a third of all American coffee drinkers own one, while more than half of Americans say that they drink single-cup coffee pods in 2017.
Because of that, there are enough pods buried on the planet to circle the earth more than a couple dozen times. We took a look inside Nespresso's facility to see how they're trying to change that. "You don't need to open them, you don't need to rinse them. Use them, stick them in the approved Nespresso bag and send them to us," explained Ag Choice's founder and president, Jay Fischer.Though Nespresso is taking action, they wouldn't share with us exactly how many capsules are actually recycled.In 2014, a video titled"Kill the K Cup" came out and caused an uproar against Keurig.
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