PORTIONED COFFEE

The Art of Precision

Independent experts – using what’s called a Life Cycle Assessment* – have found that portioned coffee can have a similar environmental impact – or an even better performance – than other ways of making coffee.

To understand the environmental impact of a product, we have to look at the product's whole value chain. From bean to cup. For any coffee, the biggest environmental impact happens at home when you brew a cup of coffee, and when the coffee is grown and harvested.

Coffee farming and home consumption are the two largest contributors to a cup of coffee’s carbon footprint – packaging only comes third.

With a precision consumption system like Nespresso, you use just the right amount of coffee, water and energy needed to brew a single cup. With other brewing methods it’s easy to over-dose your coffee, brew more than you end up drinking, or leave the hot plate running for longer than necessary.

Recycle. Recycle. Recycle.

Our capsules are fundamental to precision consumption. Not only do they allow you to use just the right amount of resources, our recycling scheme allows those resources to be recovered after use.

How to recycle
Recycle bag

Purchase a Nespresso recycling bag with your next order. All proceeds go to the Farmer Future Program.

Recycling bag

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New home compostable capsules

Yet another sustainable choice: you can now compost our paper-based capsules
at home, helping to create rich and nutritious compost.

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