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I cannot get up on a morning without reaching for coffee. It is absolutely the first thing that I need to set me up for the day. Furthermore, I love my Nespresso machine, with its incredibly convenient coffee pods. But – although I know that the aluminium pods Nespresso make can be recycled, it’s a pain to drop them off. I currently have 3 bags waiting to go! And I am not alone. It was recently reported that 95% of all coffee capsules end in landfill, which is both astonishing and appalling. Because of this, I have wondered for a long time if there was a more eco-friendly and sustainable alternative. Well, there is. Eco friendly compostable coffee pods are available quite widely these days.
#AD – We were gifted 3 sets of coffee pods for this review This is a collaborative post. Do see my Disclosure Policy All opinions are our own.
Eco Friendly Compostable Coffee Pods
Rejuvenation Water
The Rejuvenation Water brand make clean, plant based nutritional drinks, and specialise in keto coffee pods that are fully compostable. This ketogenic coffee is an instant form of energy, great for starting your day.
Coffee And Kin
The Coffee & Kin Brand was started by two sisters and their Aussie husbands. Primarily, they had a love of coffee culture. But they also wanted to bring high quality ethically sourced speciality coffee to the market.
As a brand, they are passionate about ensuring that their coffee farmers get a fair price, so each of the coffees they produce can be traced back at each stage of the process.
Coffee & Kin do stock coffee beans and loose teas, and even have subscription packages for tea, coffee and chocolate. But I was most interested to learn about their range of eco friendly coffee capsules.
“The World’s Kindest Coffee Capsule”
Claiming that they are producing “The World’s Kindest Coffee Capsules”, Coffee & Kin produce 3 blends of eco friendly compostable coffee pods.
Why are they ‘kind’? Because –
- they are totally plastic free and biodegradable – designed to be composted after use.
- the capsules contain ethically sourced coffee
- from the sale of each capsule 1p is donated to the Blurt Foundation, which helps young people and adults with depression.
They are even produced using energy generated from sustainable sources, such as wind, sun, hydropower and biogas.
We were kindly gifted a box of each of the capsulated blends. Each come with tasting notes almost akin to those of fine wines. I cannot pretend to be such a connoisseur, but I did try each blend both as an espresso, and with cream added.
Escape
With tasting notes of toffee, chocolate and hazelnut, the escape pods were the first that I tried. For me this is a light tangy blend that was best with cream or milk added.
Discover
This was my favourite of the three. The tasting notes promised chocolate, almond and maple syrup, and the chocolate definitely won through in this blend for me. A smooth coffee, which seemed more robust and had a better crema from my machine.
Explore
Finally I tried the Explore blend. And this seemed a great middle ground between the other two blends. Not too robust and yet not as light as the Escape blend. A definite raspberry note as promised.
These certainly are such a brilliant alternative to aluminium pods. And at a comparable price to standard pods, they really are the eco friendly answer to the problem of so many coffee pods going to landfill. We really need to make these small changes to our lifestyle, and embrace zero waste.
PLEASE NOTE HOWEVER
***Update 2 years after this post was written. ***
These pods DO NOT compost in your own domestic compost heap. They will probably need picking up or composting in a specific local authority facility. I only found this out once I had tried to compost them in my own bin. So do be aware of this.
So to try them for yourself, do go to the Coffee & Kin Website. You can either buy a box on its own, or why not sign up to their subscription service to ensure you never run out again?
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Sounds win, win, Jo … I do love my coffee and it is great that these are eco-friendly! And they taste good to! #KCACOLS
Yes. I only hope that other companies take note and start doing all theirs this way.
What a fabulous idea, it’s about time all coffee pods were made this way.
It certainly is!
The little pods have always put me off a coffee machine like this. It’s good to know that there is an eco friendly alternative. #MMBC
I’ve always taken them for recycling, and you can post them too these days. But these seem an even better alternative.
I’m all for our convenience products being more green and eco friendly. Sound like a good solution to the throw-aways. #MMBC
Me too. Such a good idea!
I have never heard of these but they sound really beneficial X #mmbc
What a great idea, when I first saw those disposable K-cups, I cringed at all the plastic. I will try these out.
Certainly, the plastic ones are just dreadfully wasteful. These are certainly much better for the planet.
It’s great that so many companies are starting to embrace eco-friendly alternatives. I don’t drink coffee though – never liked it! Thanks so much for linking up at #KCACOLS. Hope you come back again next time!
What a marvelous idea! I shudder at the thought of all those plastic coffee pods going to the landfills.
#Kcacols
What a fab idea! It would be nice to see other coffee brands taking steps to cut down on the plastic too! x #MMBC
Wow! This is a huge step forward. I really hope other companies follow suit. Thanks for linking up to #KCACOLS
How wonderful to be able to make another small step into reducing plastic. I love that they support the Blurt Foundation too! #KCACOLS
Now the coffee pod thing isn’t really a problem for me, since I only take my coffee in cake 😉 However, I think these are absolutely brilliant. It’s crazy how many pods are ending up in landfill, so anything that helps has to be good. Better still it helps a mental health charity, so I’m definitely behind it. If only they sold coffee cake x
#KCACOLS