Coffee pod recycling service launched in city

THE tens of thousands of plastic or foil coffee pods that are used and chucked away by people in Bristol every day usually end up in landfill, but now - finally - there is an answer.

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People across the city are being urged to collect and store their used coffee pods - the kind that come out of small kitchen coffee makers - and drop them off when they next go to one of the city’s three household recycling centres.

A company called Podback, which is running the UK's first coffee pod recycling scheme, has installed drop-off points at each of Bristol’s three household recycling centres at Avonmouth, Bedminster and St Philips, and the scheme was launched yesterday.

There are dedicated Podback drop-off containers at each of the recycling centres and different sections for plastic or aluminium pods.

The small pods have been a growing feature of the coffee market in the UK since sales began to rise in the early 2010s with the appearance of the first small kitchentop coffee machines.