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<\/p>\nA Nespresso spokesperson said: “We are frequently asked whether individual portions and the use of aluminium contradict sustainability – in our opinion, the opposite is the case.”<\/p>\n
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Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, has banned coffee pods and other disposable products\u00a0from its council buildings as part of a drive to reduce environmental waste.<\/p>\n
Announced as part of a 150-page \u201cGuide to Green Procurement\u201d, the city introduced a ban on buying “certain polluting products or product components” with council money. The ban therefore includes bottled water and beer, chlorine-based cleaning products, air freshener, plastic plates and cutlery.<\/p>\n
The report states: “These portion packs cause unnecessary resource consumption and waste generation, and often contain polluting aluminium.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jan Dube, spokesman for the Hamburg Department of the Environment and Energy, told the BBC<\/a>: “The capsules can’t be recycled easily because they are often made of a mixture of plastic and aluminium.”<\/p>\n “It’s 6g of coffee in 3g of packaging.\u00a0We in Hamburg thought that these shouldn’t be bought with taxpayers’ money.”<\/p>\n Around 10 per cent of Britons polled by The Grocer, a supermarket trade magazine, said\u00a0they believed coffee pods are \u201cvery bad for the environment”. However, 22 per cent\u00a0of those asked said they owned a machine.<\/p>\n Last year, Caffe Vergnano, an Italian producer, developed a type of capsule that can decompose naturally.<\/p>\n Source: http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Nespresso spokesperson said: “We are frequently asked whether individual portions and the use of aluminium contradict sustainability – in our opinion, the opposite is the case.” Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, has banned coffee pods and other … Continue reading