The coffee capsules consist of aluminium at a 100 %. This gives you the guarantee for an environmentally friendly recycling. Pure aluminium can be processed infinitely and is the only known material protecting coffee from light and air. Therefore other packagings for coffee also have layers of aluminium. However, these are combined with synthetic material so that a environmentally friendly recycling can not be ensured. The outside often is a plasticized material, the inside a layer of aluminium, both cannot be separated in this form.
Nespresso capsules are different. In Germany Nespresso takes part in the Duale System, the "Grüne Punkt" stands for an environmentally friendly recycling. Of course we are dependent on the goodwill of the consumers. We ask our customers to dispose the capsules in the "Gelber Sack" or "Gelbe Tonne". In regions without the possibility to recycle the capsules over "Gelber Sack" or "Gelbe Tonne" you find collecting points in walking distance. There the capsules can be disposed including content in the container for lightwheight packaging. The recycling is coordinated area-wide via the dual system Germany.
Compared with customary packaging like e. g. the standard can, the output of waste of Nespresso capsules is lower.
An empty capsule consists of 0, 9 g pure aluminium. When using coffee cans, the weight per portion is 3, 7 g. Nevertheless Nespresso is always anxious to produce the capsule even thinner, lighter and with that more environment-friendly. In comparison with the Nespresso capsules of about 1195, nowadays one portion only contains a 50 % of the aluminium.
Furthermore, we would like to mention that our coffee does never come into contact with the aluminium, because the inside of each capsule is provided with a biodegradable protective film.
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