How is Sociedade Ponto Verde (SPV, a Portuguese non-profit recycling organisation) involved with Nespresso? Does it mean that Nespresso capsules may eventually be recycled in the yellow recycling bin?

In Portugal, the traditional yellow, green and blue recycling bins provide a large-scale response to our consumption habits and to technology available in current waste sorting centres.

Since 2015 Nespresso has been consolidating its relationship with Sociedade Ponto Verde, in order to jointly find a solution to Nespresso coffee capsule treatment. This is one of the emerging wastes for which Sociedade Ponto Verde wishes to find an answer.

It is in this context that Sociedade Ponto Verde has been helping and supporting Nespresso, namely regarding research, so to find a viable and sustainable solution.

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