A Segré (Maine-et-Loire), lotissement de la Miochaie, Yoann et Sandrine Xavier ont créé un point de collecte pour les capsules de café. Une initiative accessible à tous.

Se você adora a conveniência das cápsulas de café, mas se preocupa com o custo ambiental, veja como evitar lixá-las.

If you have a capsule coffee machine at home, we've got advice on how to get rid of your used coffee capsules without chucking them in the rubbish.

Lavazza has also partnered with TerraCycle, a company that specialises in handling hard-to-recycle rubbish. If you don’t have access to a food waste collection, you can drop off your used Eco Caps at a public drop-off location near you.

DISPOSABLE gloves, cheese wrappers, and biscuit packets are among the mounds of rubbish that have helped raise £2,000 locally for healthcare overseas. More than 2,000kg of waste has been collected by volunteers including Amersham resident Kate Lillie who are helping tackle 'unrecyclable' waste.

Pour concrétiser ses engagements relatifs à l’économie circulaire et à la lutte contre le gaspillage, le groupe Lavazza (Carte Noire et Lavazza) s’associe à TerraCycle®, spécialisé dans le recyclage des déchets difficilement recyclables, pour faciliter le compostage de deux produits de ses gammes françaises : les capsules Lavazza Eco Caps et les dosettes souples compostables Carte Noire.  

Having a coffee machine in your kitchen has many perks: it's much cheaper to make a delicious latte at home rather than nipping into Costa (plus, they're not even open right now!), and a real espresso will always taste better than one made with instant granules. Saying that, we've all experienced that disappointing moment when we go to make ourselves a morning brew only to find we've run out of capsules. To prevent this, we'd recommend investing in a coffee subscription. Whether you're after fresh roasted whole beans for your top-of-the-range bean-to-cup machine, or ultra-convenient Nespresso pods, there are plenty of versatile plans to pick from; many offering rotating bags of top-grade coffee to try, so you don't get bored. Nowadays, pods are much more eco-friendly too, with plenty of options for recycling. All of the options we've listed can be cancelled at any time, so you're not tied down if you feel like switching things up. Many brands offer free delivery, discounted beans or other incentives for signing up, too. So, here's our round up of our favourite at-home coffee subscription services — so you can enjoy a proper cappuccino, even through lockdown.  

Brands saying no to plastic

The global plastic crisis is getting out of hand. Many single-use plastic items, only designed to be used once, take centuries to decompose. With just 14% of plastic packaging being recycled, according to a 2017 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and World Economic Forum, recycling clearly isn’t working either. Fortunately, some companies are making huge strides in reducing the amount of plastic they use – click or scroll through as we take a look at what they're doing.      

Lavazza Professional, a part of one of the world’s largest coffee companies, announced it has recycled more than 156 million FLAVIA Freshpacks through its ongoing “Recycle Your Freshpack Program,” created in partnership with TerraCycle, a world leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams.   Lavazza Professional, a part of one of the world’s largest coffee companies, announced it has recycled more than 156 million FLAVIA Freshpacks through its ongoing “Recycle Your Freshpack Program,” created in partnership with TerraCycle, a world leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams.   "Finding viable and credible 'end-of-life' solutions for our products is very important to us and forms part of our ongoing sustainability strategy work," said Richard Bond, global senior manager sustainability at Lavazza Professional, in a statement. "TerraCycle has been a critical partner in offering this recycling solution for our FLAVIA Freshpacks and helping us to reach this wonderful milestone. Strong partnerships are a critical factor in this work, which we hope to build on with TerraCycle as we identify ways in which we can further support our customers and distributors in achieving their own sustainability targets. We have come a long way over our 10-year relationship with TerraCycle, and we look forward to continuing to help our customers recycle our FLAVIA Freshpacks and reduce their environmental impact."     Through the recycling program, businesses serviced by an authorized Lavazza Professional distributor were invited to take part in making their workplace more sustainable by diverting single-serve Freshpacks from landfill. To participate, businesses registered at recycleyourfreshpacks.com, collected their empty FLAVIA Freshpacks, downloaded a shipping label and returned the waste to TerraCycle for recycling.   "Since TerraCycle was founded more than 15 years ago, we’ve worked with companies like Lavazza Professional to make recycling as convenient and effective as possible," said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky in a statement. “This milestone demonstrates that by offering a simple solution to waste, a significant impact can be achieved that not only preserves the environment but makes the world a better, cleaner place." The Recycle Your Freshpack Program has been adopted by workplaces nationwide and is especially popular among Fortune 500 companies eager to lessen their ecological footprint.    

More than 156 million single-serve coffee pods have been recycled by Lavazza Professional via its TerraCycle partnership. Lavazza Professional’s relationship with TerraCycle to recycle its single-serve Flavia Freshpacks began 10 years ago. It’s part of the company’s ongoing sustainability strategy work, according to Global Senior Manager Sustainability Richard Bond.   “TerraCycle has been a critical partner in offering this recycling solution for our Flavia Freshpacks and helping us to reach this wonderful milestone,” Bond said in a statement. “Strong partnerships are a critical factor in this work which we hope to build on with TerraCycle as we identify ways in which we can further support our customers and distributors in achieving their own sustainability targets.”   Through the Recycle Your Freshpack Program, businesses serviced by an authorized Lavazza Professional distributor can register at www.recycleyourfreshpacks.com, collect their empty Flavia Freshpacks, download a shipping label and returned the waste to Trenton-based TerraCycle for recycling.   “This milestone demonstrates that by offering a simple solution to waste, a significant impact can be achieved that not only preserves the environment but makes the world a better, cleaner place,” said TerraCycle Chief Executive Office Tom Szaky in a statement.