Swiss Army Knives Made With Nespresso Capsules

Much has been made about the waste and plastic pollution factor with one-serving coffee capsules. I don’t even think I have found a K-Cup on the beach, although plastic creamers are fairly common. I have over the years found knives laying around on the beach.

With over 75 Million people just in the USA using single serving coffee .. that is a lot of unnecessary plastic waste. So how do you reuse or recycle them?

Well one way is to team up with a company to make some products. Nespresso has teamed with the Swiss Army knife guys to create a Nespresso knife. The knife includes a blade, can opener, 2 screwdrivers, bottle opener, wire stripper. It takes 24 aluminum Nespresso capsules to make this limited edition knife.

Unfortunately this is only a limited edition… which means how many more Nepresso cups are in our landfills.

I Just Got to Eco You

• Nepresso is part of the Nestle Family. Nestle is best known for human rights abuses, abusing water rights, pollution, unethical marketing practices in the breastfeeding market. and more.
• One aluminum coffee pod takes to completely breakdown in a landfill is 150-500 years.
• Keurig is the next largest competitor and their pods are difficult to recycle.
• Hamburg, Germany: The first city in the world to banned the use of coffee pods in government-run buildings, offices, schools and universities.
• Germans use roughly 3 billion pods a year.
•  1.5 million households in Australia own a pod machine.
•  75 million homes in the USA  brewing single use pods like K-cups (Keurig) everyday.
• Only 33% of recycling centers will take a coffee pod for recycling.

Resources:

Doing Nestle’s Dirty Work 

Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast

10 Outrageous Nestle Scandals