Nespresso and the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea has launched a recycling project to recycle used aluminium coffee capsules through the council’s collection service.
Residents in the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea now have the opportunity to recycle used coffee capsules
The pilot project started on Monday (1 May) and will last for six months with coffee machine and coffee capsule firm Nespresso saying this is the first time a local council in the UK has collected the capsules. In a statement, it said: “The trial is part of a project to expand existing recycling schemes and give customers easier and more convenient options to recycle the used aluminium capsules.”
After they are collected the capsules will be sent directly to a dedicated Nespresso recycling facility in Congleton.
Francisco Nogueira, managing director at Nespresso UK and Ireland, said: “We know recycling is incredibly important to Nespresso Club Members and it remains a top priority for us as a business. We launched our own dedicated recycling services seven years ago. We have seen them go from strength to strength as we have widened the variety of ways for customers to return their capsules.
“Every week we are seeing an increase in the volume of capsules being sent in by customers through our system. But we know there is still much to be done and recycling through the municipal system is something our members have asked for.”
Currently, Nespresso customers can recycle used capsules in a number of ways: at one of 24 Nespresso boutiques, at a Nespresso Café in London, via a home collection service which collects used capsules when new capsules are delivered, or via drop-off points including over 6,000 Doddle and Collect+ locations.
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The capsules will be collected in purple recycling bags by Suez on behalf of the council
The capsules will be collected in purple recycling bags which will be sent to residents in the post and are also available to order online, through The Nespresso Club and through the Nespresso boutique on Brompton Road and in Peter Jones Sloane Square. Residents can put their used capsules out for recycling alongside their regular recycling bins.
The bags will be collected by SUEZ on behalf of the council, and sent to the Nespresso recycling facility for the aluminum capsules to be recycled. The waste coffee grounds, claimed Nespresso, will be used to create “nutrient-rich compost”.
Sarah Ottaway, national recycling manager for SUEZ in the UK said: “We’re really pleased to be working with Nespresso to deliver this service alongside the regular recycling collections we provide across the borough. We know that residents in Kensington and Chelsea, like many places, have a desire to recycle a greater range of products and materials within their kerbside recycling scheme, which this trial will enable them to do. “
“We also know from experience that residents like simple, regular, collection systems that allow them to recycle as much as possible. By collecting Nespresso capsules alongside the normal regular collection service, this is exactly what the trial offers, so we’re excited to see the results.”
Francisco Nogueira said: “Unfortunately not all our customers are aware that, because our capsules are aluminium, they can be recycled. We are focused on communicating this as much as possible through our boutiques and customer channels to encourage more people to send us back their capsules.”
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