What is a coffee pod?
A coffee pod is a single serve of coffee that can be placed into a coffee machine with an adapted handle. Each dose is exactly the same and the wrapping ensures freshness. There are 2 main types of coffee pod; the ESE compatible tea bag style sealed in foil and the plastic pod that looks similar to a small UHT milk portion. Each time you use a pod you generate a significant amount of non-recyclable waste, both in the pod and the wrapping. What are the alternatives? There are many more environmentally friendly alternatives. Plunger coffee and traditional espresso machines only leave the ground coffee behind. This is great put straight onto your garden as a fertilizer or mulch. From a 1kg plastic bag of coffee you can get 140 single serves. That’s saving 140 individual pods and pod wrappings. There’s a huge range of fully automatic coffee machines that grind the whole beans for each cup. This is actually fresher and tastes better than a pod as the coffee is freshly ground. Coffee pods al
