The responsible disposal of used coffee capsules is a huge and growing problem in terms of food waste. The Eden Project, an educational charity, connects people with the living world with its visitor destination based in Cornwall, UK - situated in a crater with biomes housing the largest rainforest in captivity, exhibitions and stories. Eden supports projects that work towards a better future. As such, the Eden team set to creating these ground-breaking capsules. They are a great solution to a global waste problem, as they break down into simple raw materials in a domestic garden heap, a landfill site, or a council food waste bio-digester in a matter of weeks. It doesn't matter where you dispose of them, they will quickly break down into biomass, water & CO2.
Eden Project coffee capsules provide a full oxygen barrier without the need for any additional packaging and they still naturally break down. Eden coffee best quality Nespresso compatible capsules keep our Rainforest Alliance coffees in perfect condition until you want to use them. Eden coffee capsules will break down into natural simple raw materials in a garden heap in 23 weeks at low temperatures.
These plastic free capsules are constructed from a naturally occurring PHA biopolymer and produced using energy generated from wind, sun, hydropower, and biogas, so they don't contribute to climate change either. They differ from other capsules that break down and are made from PLA plastic which require a high temperature bio-digester to get the capsules to break down (otherwise they can behave like petroleum plastics and can stay in the ground unchanged for years). Eden pods will break d