to find Nespresso's new recycling process infuriating?

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It used to be that you'd bag the spent capsules up, and they would collect, or you could return them to the store.
My local store has now closed, and the collection system is really difficult to master - I haven't managed it yet.
So, they can paint themselves as environmentally-friendly, but do bugger all.

Plus, they make it difficult/impossible to complain, apart from talking to a robot.

I know this is a 1st world problem, but I felt the need to vent.

This is what I do. The grounds get scattered at the allotment and the metal in normal recycling.

From what I've read, the 'recycling' is mostly greenwashing.

The structure of those little Nespresso pods means that cleaning them is very energy intensive. So more energy would be used 'recycling' them than if you had just added them to land fill. Nespresso know that their pods have a terrible reputation for being unsustainable, so they push the 'recycling' thing even though it's really just for show.

I like Nespresso, but I don't think there's any getting around the fact that it's an extremely wasteful way to drink coffee.

We have a bean to cup machine. Makes better coffee than the Nespresso (we think so anyway) and waste goes on the compost and/or straight out the flower beds. We get the beans from Costco.

Thads what we do too

Another Grind customer here. Really like their pods and they just go in with the normal food waste.

I completely agree. It irritates me daily. I still haven't used the new system and have 3 user bags cluttering up the place

About the rubber seal...when you take the coffee out, at the base is a thin rubbery layer. I don't want to go to the effort of using the ecopress, if this layer makes it unrecyclabe.
I do agree with the poster above about nespresso's green credentials (or lack of) but the bottom line is I have the machine, and like the coffee. It wouldn't be very green to dispose of the machine.