Nespresso bid to recycle coffee pods

Nestli(C) bows to environmental backlash over popular home brewing system

The coffee company Nespresso - part of the Swiss multinational Nestli(C) - is to trial a scheme to make it easier for consumers to recycle their used aluminium capsules in the UK, in the face of a growing environmental backlash against increasingly popular single-serve pods, many of which end up in landfill.

A six-month pilot, starting this week in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea, will allow Nespresso Club members to recycle their used capsules through their council household recycling service, using special purple bags provided by the company. The borough's 190,000 residents will only be able to put out capsules made by Nespresso.