Club Coffee, the leader in plant-based compostable single-serve coffee pods, is implementing the How2Recycle and How2Compost label instructions on its packaging. It joins more than 250 North American industry leaders using the programs to give consumers clear messaging about where their packaging is designed to be discarded when they’re done using it. “From our first steps to a compostable…
Compostable coffee pods have just been recognized in Nature, the world’s most respected natural science research publication. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65058-1 A study by researchers at the University of Tennessee’s main campus in Knoxville (UTK) assessed the environmental and economic performance of compostable coffee pods compared to plastic coffee pods. The UTK research team reported that compostable coffee…
Plant Based Products: Story below was taken from the PBPC website: https://pbpc.com/to-cbc-needs-improvement/ To CBC: Infrastructure, Not Plant Based Products, Needs Improvement A recent CBC Marketplace piece focuses on how Canadian grocery stores are filled with single-use plastic packaging used for a wide variety of products. It concludes that many of these legacy plastic materials are not properly disposed…
A recent CBC Marketplace episode reported misleading and erroneous information on compostable coffee pods. Here are the FACTS: Our plant-based compostable coffee pods thoroughly break down in the most common municipal composting technologies in North America (aerobic and anaerobic pre-processing). Our compostable coffee pods have been successfully tested in many Canadian municipalities, including the City…
New Ontario Working Group Expected to Recommend How to Accept Compostable Coffee Pods and Other Innovations in Ontario Green Bins Toronto, June 20, 2019 — Club Coffee, the leader in plant-based, compostable single serve coffee pods, saluted the Ontario government decision to move rapidly so compostable coffee pods will be accepted in all Ontario green…
Read the FULL text below —————- Published in: National Post Circular Economy Special Insert —————- Single-use plastics are now seen as a global crisis. Less than 10 percent of them are recycled. The rest are sent to landfills, dumped into lakes and oceans, burned for energy with its own environmental implications, or shipped to…
