What do you do with your used makeup packaging, expired batteries or obsolete spectacles? Too often these items – and many others – get thrown in the general rubbish, ending up in landfill when in fact they can be recycled.

‘Recycling the unrecyclable’ has become the catch-cry of an organisation which works with brands to educate consumers on how to recycle packaging beyond the traditional realm of cardboard, cans, and bottles. Alison Leader spoke to TerraCycle’s Gemma Kaczerepa.

Eurobodalla residents can help the brewing environmental problem caused by coffee capsules by sending them off for free to be recycled. Recycling company TerraCycle offers a range of programs funded by manufacturing companies where residents can ship certain items not accepted in yellow-lidded home recycling bins to be recycled for free. These include oral care products such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, kids’ food pouches, soft plastic mail satchels, beauty product packaging and coffee capsules. Some of the programs even offer reward points that can be redeemed for donations to non-profit organisations and schools. TerraCycle currently runs free collection programs on Aldi’s Expressi coffee pods, Nescafe’s Nespresso and Dolce Gusto capsules, and L’OR coffee capsules. Expressi and Dolce Gusto capsules, made of plastic, and L’OR’s aluminium capsules can be posted for free by printing a shipping label from TerraCycle’s website. Each brand of capsule must be posted separately in either a sealed plastic bag or be completely dry. The capsules are then shredded to separate the coffee grounds from the plastic/aluminium, which is reused to make new recycled products. Nespresso coffee capsules can be dropped off at a growing number of collection points. While the closest collection points are at Cooma, Canberra and Kiama, local garden centres, florists and nurseries can register as drop-off locations and post them free of charge. It is estimated Australians consume around three million single-serve coffee capsules every day and it can take up to 500 years for them to break down in landfill. Real espresso coffee or plunger coffee has none of the waste issues of coffee capsules and waste coffee grounds can be composted. For more information about TerraCycle’s programs visit the website at www.terracycle.com.au and click on ‘Recycle Your Waste’. What is Terracycle? TerraCycle is Eliminating the Idea of Waste® by recycling the "non-recyclable." Whether it's coffee capsules from your home, pens from a school, or plastic gloves from a manufacturing facility, TerraCycle can collect and recycle almost any form of waste material. We partner with individual collectors such as yourself, as well as major consumer product companies, retailers, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses across 20 different countries. With your help, we are able to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and incinerators each month.

Eurobodalla residents can help the brewing environmental problem caused by coffee capsules by sending them off for free to be recycled. Recycling company TerraCycle offers a range of programs funded by manufacturing companies where residents can ship certain items not accepted in yellow-lidded home recycling bins to be recycled for free. These include oral care products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, kids’ food pouches, soft plastic mail satchels, beauty product packaging and coffee capsules. Some of the programs even offer reward points that can be redeemed for donations to non-profit organisations and schools. TerraCycle currently runs free collection programs on Aldi’s Expressi coffee pods, Nescafe’s Nespresso and Dolce Gusto capsules, and L’OR coffee capsules. Expressi and Dolce Gusto capsules, made of plastic, and L’OR’s aluminium capsules can be posted for free by printing a shipping label from TerraCycle’s website. Each brand of capsule must be posted separately in either a sealed plastic bag or be completely dry. The capsules are then shredded to separate the coffee grounds from the plastic/aluminium, which is reused to make new recycled products. Nespresso coffee capsules can be dropped off at a growing number of collection points. While the closest collection points are at Cooma, Canberra and Kiama, local garden centres, florists and nurseries can register as drop-off locations and post them free of charge. It is estimated Australians consume around three million single-serve coffee capsules every day and it can take up to 500 years for them to breakdown in landfill. Real espresso coffee or plunger coffee has none of the waste issues of coffee capsules and waste coffee grounds can be composted. For more information about TerraCycle’s programs visit www.terracycle.com.au and click on ‘Recycle Your Waste’.

Eurobodalla residents can help the brewing environmental problem caused by coffee capsules by sending them off for free to be recycled. Recycling company TerraCycle offers a range of programs funded by manufacturing companies where residents can ship certain items not accepted in yellow-lidded home recycling bins to be recycled for free. These include oral care products such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, kids’ food pouches, soft plastic mail satchels, beauty product packaging and coffee capsules. Some of the programs even offer reward points that can be redeemed for donations to non-profit organisations and schools. TerraCycle currently runs free collection programs on Aldi’s Expressi coffee pods, Nescafe’s Nespresso and Dolce Gusto capsules, and L’OR coffee capsules. Expressi and Dolce Gusto capsules, made of plastic, and L’OR’s aluminium capsules can be posted for free by printing a shipping label from TerraCycle’s website. Each brand of capsule must be posted separately in either a sealed plastic bag or be completely dry. The capsules are then shredded to separate the coffee grounds from the plastic/aluminium, which is reused to make new recycled products. Nespresso coffee capsules can be dropped off at a growing number of collection points. While the closest collection points are at Cooma, Canberra and Kiama, local garden centres, florists and nurseries can register as drop-off locations and post them free of charge. It is estimated Australians consume around three million single-serve coffee capsules every day and it can take up to 500 years for them to break down in landfill. Real espresso coffee or plunger coffee has none of the waste issues of coffee capsules and waste coffee grounds can be composted. For more information about TerraCycle’s programs visit the website at www.terracycle.com.au and click on ‘Recycle Your Waste’.

What is Terracycle?

TerraCycle is Eliminating the Idea of Waste® by recycling the "non-recyclable." Whether it's coffee capsules from your home, pens from a school, or plastic gloves from a manufacturing facility, TerraCycle can collect and recycle almost any form of waste material. We partner with individual collectors such as yourself, as well as major consumer product companies, retailers, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses across 20 different countries. With your help, we are able to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and incinerators each month.

Eurobodalla residents can help the brewing environmental problem caused by coffee capsules by sending them off for free to be recycled.

Recycling company TerraCycle offers a range of programs funded by manufacturing companies where residents can ship certain items not accepted in yellow-lidded home recycling bins to be recycled for free.

These include oral care products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, kids’ food pouches, soft plastic mail satchels, beauty product packaging and coffee capsules.

Some of the programs even offer reward points that can be redeemed for donations to non-profit organisations and schools.

TerraCycle currently runs free collection programs on Aldi’s Expressi coffee pods, Nescafe’s Nespresso and Dolce Gusto capsules, and L’OR coffee capsules.

Expressi and Dolce Gusto capsules, made of plastic, and L’OR’s aluminium capsules can be posted for free by printing a shipping label from TerraCycle’s website. Each brand of capsule must be posted separately in either a sealed plastic bag or be completely dry. The capsules are then shredded to separate the coffee grounds from the plastic/aluminium, which is reused to make new recycled products.

Nespresso coffee capsules can be dropped off at a growing number of collection points. While the closest collection points are at Cooma, Canberra and Kiama, local garden centres, florists and nurseries can register as drop-off locations and post them free of charge.

It is estimated Australians consume around three million single-serve coffee capsules every day and it can take up to 500 years for them to breakdown in landfill.

Real espresso coffee or plunger coffee has none of the waste issues of coffee capsules and waste coffee grounds can be composted.

For more information about TerraCycle’s programs visit www.terracycle.com.au and click on ‘Recycle Your Waste’.

This week's BIG question ..... Are coffee cups recyclable in the Eurobodalla? Council confirms...... YES. Unlined cardboard and plastic-lined coffee cups, including the plastic lids, are to be placed into the yellow-lidded recycling bins within Eurobodalla. Council’s contractor SUEZ bales them and then transports the cardboard for recycling to companies within Australia. Polystyrene coffee cups should not be placed in yellow-lidded recycling bins. The materials recycling facility in Moruya does not process polystyrene as a recyclable, because it is difficult to manage in this environment. However, clean polystyrene is recyclable and can be separated and delivered to Council’s waste management facilities for recycling, free of charge. Used coffee pods cannot be recycled in Eurobodalla's yellow-lidded recycling bins. However, there is an option for the keen recycler. Terracycle currently accepts Expressi coffee pods and Nespresso coffee pods at present. For more information about Terracycle and what they offer you can visit their website at http://bit.ly/2sG8Mqw It may also be a way to raise funds through Terracycle’s incentive points system for a sports club or organisation while closing the loop on a problem waste item.

IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH COFFEE PODS? One in three households in the US today are believed to have a coffee pod based machine. The number of coffee pod machines are increasing in the UK and Europe as well. If you are an owner of a coffee pod machine, have you been reading reports about the environmental issues of used coffee pods? Have your friends been telling you that coffee pods are bad for the environment? Have you been planning to buy a coffee pod machine? Do you want to know what the reality is on used coffee pods?

Utilizando tecnologia da TerraCycle, a empresa recicla as cápsulas de Nespresso as transformando em um modelo novo de canivete suíço. A iniciativa é fruto de uma parceria da empresa com a Nestlé.

We love our coffee in Lane Cove and you can bet your sweet latte, that many Lane Cove homes have a Nespresso Machine and that means Nespresso Pods.  The pods have become a bit controversial. The former head of Nespresso, Jean-Paul Gaillard is claiming that coffee pods are killing the environment. In an interview with the ABC Jean-Paul Gaillard said that certain pods are made from a combination of plastics and aluminum with organic matter inside, the coffee pods are not biodegradable.  It apparently takes between 150 to 500 years for aluminum and plastic capsules to breakdown in landfill. Nespresso has taken steps to promote recycling and there are now several ways you can recycle your Nespresso Pods so they do not end up as landfill. Nespresso has taken steps to promote recycling and there are now several ways you can recycle your Nespresso Pods so they do not end up as landfill. Drop them off at Pureflowers Lane Cove Lane Cove is lucky enough to have a place where they can be recycled.  Pureflowers has a Lane Cove recycling program for Nespresso capsules. Pureflowers is participating in a nationwide environmental program to help recycle coffee capsules. Nespresso has joined with recycling and upcycling experts TerraCycle Australia to expand their recycling program at additional collection points around the country at florists, garden centres and nurseries. Lane Cove residents can now recycle their used Nespresso capsules at no cost by visiting Pure Flowers and dropping their capsules (sealed in any plastic bag which will also be recycled) into the in-store recycling collection box. “Pure Flowers has been delivering flowers in the Lane Cove area for 20 years. This program is an exciting initiative for our florist that’s good for the planet and makes recycling capsules accessible for locals. We’re happy to chat to customers that drop in and why not grab some fresh flowers on your way!” said Ludmila Fedorovitch, co-owner Pureflowers. The capsules will then be recycled at Nespresso’s recycling plant. Only Nespresso capsules made for in-home consumption are accepted as part of this program.  You can find out more about Nespresso’s recycling programme here. Drop them off at Nespresso Chatswood Chase. Simply collect and deposit your used capsules at the Chatswood Chase Nespresso Boutique. Become a Bulk Collector (great for stratas or for a local small business) Any Nespresso Club Member (free to join) can become a bulk collector of used Nespresso aluminum capsules, free of charge. Whether you are a Strata Manager, a Small Business Owner or simply a Club Member who is passionate about recycling, you can join our Bulk Collection Recycling Program. Simply request a bulk recycling box that will hold up to 1,500 used capsules, and we will collect it when it’s full, all free of charge. Want a Bulk Collection Recycling Box? Call 1800 623 033 Send via Australia Post Nespresso has recently partnered with Australia Post, making recycling as easy as finding your nearest Post Box. Simply pop up to 130 used Nespresso aluminum capsules into one of the specially designed satchels, and drop into your nearest Post Office or Red Street Australia Post Box. When you buy the satchels, Nespresso will cover the cost of the postage.