Add upcycled style to any gift with this easy do-it-yourself gift bow and gift wrap. You can make them from any kind of food wrapper, but the coffee style will be sure to wake up your inner crafty self. And if you find yourself with more Tassimo coffee wrappers than you can turn into gift bows, collect and send them to TerraCycle – www.terracycle.co.uk – and we’ll not only upcycle them into new products, we’ll donate money to your favorite charity for each wrapper collected. Now that’s a great gift!

Anyone who has a fondess for Tassimo coffee makers but who might be concerned about the waste created by the 'pods' - they can be recycled via terracycle.

Det amerikanska miljöföretaget TerraCycle har inlett ett unikt samarbete med Kraft Foods i Sverige. Efter att ha njutit en kopp Gevalia kan konsumenterna skicka in sina Tassimo kaffekapslar som TerraCycle återvinner eller omvandlar till bland annat handväskor och högtalare. Den nästan obefintliga konkurrensen på den Svenska marknaden inom segmentet gynnar bolaget. ”Det som förvånar oss är att det inte finns någon annan som gör som vi”, säger Chris Baker, vd och ansvarig för TerraCycles verksamhet i Europa. ”Vi siktar in oss på det skräp som ingen annan vill ha.”

FoodMonitor: Använda kaffekapslar en guldgruva Det amerikanska miljöföretaget TerraCycle har inlett ett unikt samarbete med Kraft Foods i Sverige. Efter att ha njutit en kopp Gevalia kan konsumenterna skicka in sina Tassimo kaffekapslar som TerraCycle återvinner eller omvandlar till handväskor eller högtalare.

Det amerikanska miljöföretaget TerraCycle har inlett ett unikt samarbete med Kraft Foods i Sverige. Efter att ha njutit en kopp Gevalia kan konsumenterna skicka in sina Tassimo kaffekapslar som TerraCycle återvinner eller omvandlar till handväskor eller högtalare. Den nästan obefintliga konkurrensen på den Svenska marknaden inom segmentet gynnar bolaget.

Kapslarna (T DISC) till Tassimo har ett material som är bra för miljön. Dessa kapslar återanvänds till bokomslag, pennfodral mm och det via TerraCycle istället för att förpackningarna hamnar på soptippen eller förbränns. Dessutom skänker Tassimo 10 öre till Rain Forest Alliance för varje inskickad kapsel.

Other coffee companies are also wrestling with the waste issue. Businesses that use Flavia pods, which is made by Mars, are able to ship the used pods to the New Jersey company TerraCycle, which will compost the coffee or tea and reuse the plastic in products like pavers and fencing, a TerraCycle spokesman, Albe Zakes said. More than 2.5 million Flavia packs in the United States have been recycled in the last year. Mars sells a billion drinks a year in 35,000 workplaces worldwide. In Britain, Mr. Zakes said, TerraCycle has processed more than 800,000 coffee discs from Kraft’s Tassimo single-serve system. The results are being evaluated for possible application in the United States, a Kraft spokeswoman, Bridget MacConnell, said. Kraft and Mars are paying for collecting the pods, including shipping costs to TerraCycle.

Other coffee companies are also wrestling with the waste issue. Businesses that use Flavia pods, which is made by Mars, are able to ship the used pods to the New Jersey company TerraCycle, which will compost the coffee or tea and reuse the plastic in products like pavers and fencing, a TerraCycle spokesman, Albe Zakes said. More than 2.5 million Flavia packs in the United States have been recycled in the last year. Mars sells a billion drinks a year in 35,000 workplaces worldwide. In Britain, Mr. Zakes said, TerraCycle has processed more than 800,000 coffee discs from Kraft’s Tassimo single-serve system. The results are being evaluated for possible application in the United States, a Kraft spokeswoman, Bridget MacConnell, said. Kraft and Mars are paying for collecting the pods, including shipping costs to TerraCycle.

Other coffee companies are also wrestling with the waste issue. Businesses that use Flavia pods, which is made by Mars, are able to ship the used pods to the New Jersey company TerraCycle, which will compost the coffee or tea and reuse the plastic in products like pavers and fencing, a TerraCycle spokesman, Albe Zakes said. More than 2.5 million Flavia packs in the United States have been recycled in the last year. Mars sells a billion drinks a year in 35,000 workplaces worldwide. In Britain, Mr. Zakes said, TerraCycle has processed more than 800,000 coffee discs from Kraft’s Tassimo single-serve system. The results are being evaluated for possible application in the United States, a Kraft spokeswoman, Bridget MacConnell, said. Kraft and Mars are paying for collecting the pods, including shipping costs to TerraCycle.

Tom Szaky wants to be the rag-and-bone man to the world, collecting the  rubbish no one else wants – cigarette butts, razors, expired pills and  plastic food wrappers – and turning an enormous profit by finding new uses  for it. His US-based company TerraCycle already has rubbish collecting and re­cycling  operations in six countries and expects to launch in 11 more (including  Japan, Australia and Sweden) in the next year. He launched TerraCycle in  Britain last September and in Ireland this month. 'We’re just a $40 million company at the moment,’ he says. But he plans to  become the Google of garbage. 'A billion-dollar company doesn’t seem that  big… why not!’