Coffee pod recycling arrives in Swindon at the Cheney Manor center. Separate bins for plastic and metal available.
You can collect your used pods at home and use any container for them. Keep plastic and metal pods apart. Book a visit to the center online.
The center features Podback recycling bins. These bins exist for plastic and metal pods only. Be sure your pods are empty first, before placing them in the right Podback bin.
This change is big for recycling. Separate food waste collections started last year, in November of 2023, and this pod scheme makes big steps forward.
The council recycled over 4,440 tonnes of food waste last year. Codford Biogas in Wiltshire turned it to fertiliser, giving this food waste a new life.
The council talked about correct recycling last month. They focused on paper, cans, and plastics, emphasizing that proper sorting helps cut waste.
Food waste filled black bins quite a bit, making up 28 percent of the bin contents. Residents often recycled plastics incorrectly, about 45 percent of the time. Cans featured 55 percent incorrect recycling and paper had 40% incorrect recycling.
Wrongly sorted waste burned up, and incinerating this waste costs money. It cost £150 per tonne, totaling £2 million yearly.