As America's culture of convenience continues to flourish, single-cup coffee makers have become increasingly popular among coffee drinkers. But beneath those expedient one-cup coffee pods lies a growing environmental problem. Like most single-cup coffee pods, K-Cups consist of a combination of plastic, aluminum, organic material (coffee grounds) and a paper filter. While all said items can be easily recycled separately, the K-Cup as a whole cannot be recycled on a municipal level. "It's that hybrid packaging that makes it very hard for traditional recycling companies," said Albe Zakes, global vice president of public relations at the recycling company TerraCycle. "If you think of something as simple as a chip bag for example, a chip bag is fully recyclable. The challenge is that it's both plastic and aluminum, a hybrid packaging, which is very common, especially in food and beverage." Since 2009, TerraCycle has partnered with various single-serve coffee manufacturers to provide recycling solutions for spent coffee pods. By teaming up with Tassimo, Mars Drinks, Nespresso and more recently Illy, TerraCycle has developed a customized take back program for each company that has helped divert millions of coffee pods from landfills across the country. "Over the last couple years, TerraCycle has already collected I believe 25 million coffee capsules of the various applications through all these programs," said Zakes. "As we expand with more companies, bringing Illy into the fold, we've really ended up in a place where we work with basically everyone except for the K-Cup." Despite reaching out to the company multiple times, TerraCycle has not been able to develop a relationship with Green Mountain, Zakes said.    

A TerraCycle-t 2001-ben alapította a magyar származású Tom Szaky, az akkor húszéves gólya a Princetoni Egyetemről. Az idők során a vállalkozás a világ egyik leggyorsabban növekvő zöld (környezetvédő) hálózatává nőtte ki magát.

Idag är vi stolta att presentera vår allra första gästbloggare! Julia Sandström är Sverigechef för TerraCycle, som sysslar med återanvändning & återvinning i alla dess former.

Amerikanska återvinningsbolaget TerraCycle startade upp verksamhet i Sverige 2010 och firar nu att över 1 miljon skräpenheter samlats in i landet. 

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Klimatförändringar är något som länge har rapporterats i media. Förespråkare har i flera år varnat om effekterna som kommer av att släppa ut för mycket växthusgaser.

TerraCycle er et firma, der indsamler og genanvender affald. For hver genstand modtager giveren point, der kan omdannes til penge og doneres til velgørenhed

Det finns ett stort utbud av Tassimo kapslar, för närvarande finns det i 20 olika varianter av Tassimo kapslar på den Nordiska marknaden, så det kan vara svårt att välja.

Når posen vejer 2 kg, hvilket svarer til ca. 120 kapsler, sender Heidi Hess kapslerne portofrit til genbrug hos det innovative genanvendelsessystem TerraCycle, som TA SSIMO har indgået samarbejde med.