New Coffee Pod Collections at Three Recycling and Household Waste Sites
November 4, 2024
Leicestershire County Council are working with Podback, a not-for-profit coffee pod recycling service, to introduce coffee, tea and hot chocolate pod collections at selected Recycling and Household Waste Sites.
Coffee pods are traditionally hard to recycle and are not compatible with standard kerbside recycling collections due to their size, weight, and because they contain coffee grounds.
Collections will be trialled at Whetstone, Coalville and Mountsorrel Recycling and Household Waste sites. Please remember to keep plastic and aluminium pods separate as they are recycled at different locations. Use a reuseable bag or container to collect pods and tip them loose into the correct Podback container. All the pods collected by Podback are recycled in the UK. They are shredded to remove the coffee and then the plastic and aluminium are used to create new products, including packaging, car components and building materials.
More information on Leicestershire Recycling and Household Waste sites and their opening times can be found here;
More information on Podback including participating brands can be found here; https://www.podback.org/about
