The machines brew expensive coffee that doesn’t taste great. There are other reasons we don’t recommend the K-Cup that we’ve discussed before. Fill a bin with used pods, mail it with a prepaid shipping label, and Keurig recycles the plastic pods and aluminum lids. For those who use Keurigs in an office setting, the company offers its K-Cycle mail-back program. At home, you’ll have to peel away (and recycle) the aluminum lid, dump the grounds, and recycle them as you would other plastic items. Recycling K-Cups is now easy, though unlike Nespresso, Keurig’s mail-back program is meant for office rather than personal use. In 2020, Keurig converted all of its K-Cup pods from #7 plastic, which is nearly impossible to recycle, to recyclable #5 plastic. To combat this, former senior editor Nathan Edwards suggests letting the pods dry out first former Wirecutter staff writer Sabrina Imbler recommends keeping the bag in the freezer. One caveat: Wirecutter staffers who have used the bags have found that the accumulation of pods can create rust (what naturally happens after metal meets moisture), which encourages mold growth and produces an acrid smell. Each bag can hold up to 200 Original or 100 Vertuo capsules, and once they’re full, you can either ship them back to Nespresso recycling facilities using the prepaid UPS shipping label or drop them off at a local Nespresso boutique or at participating stores.įrom there, the aluminum is processed and turned into “ pens, bikes and even new capsules,” said Nespresso vice president of marketing Justin DeGeorge when we reached out. Just order up to two recycling bags from the website for free. You don’t even have to do it yourself-the company has its own recycling program. Nespresso’s capsules are made of aluminum, which is 100 percent recyclable. What should you do if you value both convenience and sustainability? Since the end of 2020, both Nespresso and Keurig offer fully recyclable pods, though the process is slightly different for each. The problem? Machines that depend on hard-to-recycle pods, such as Nespresso and Keurig systems, are awful for the environment: Recent research (PDF) conducted by a UK-based coffee brand found that, of the 39,000 capsules produced worldwide every minute, 29,000 of them end up in landfills. Coffee connoisseurs can flail me, but in a recent study nearly half of surveyed Americans said they relied on single-cup coffee-brewing machines to get their caffeine fix. It means that when I shop for coffee makers, I look for convenience above all-and not much is easier than popping a capsule into a coffee maker and pushing a button, no cleanup required. I rely heavily on caffeine in the mornings.
This week, it’s all things coffee at Wirecutter. From pour-overs to espresso machines, and from bean roast to brew strength, we have strong opinions about it all. If you’ve browsed any of our coffee coverage, you know that we take our brew pretty seriously.
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